Coloured bubbles!

[Kiless]

Sometimes I wonder why students can claim science isn't fun....

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/0a03b5108e097010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

POPSCI EXCLUSIVE
The 11-Year Quest to Create Disappearing Colored Bubbles
Chemical burns, ruined clothes, 11 years, half a million dollars—it's not easy to improve the world's most popular toy. Yet the success of one inventor's quest to dye a simple soap bubble may change the way the world uses color

[clarsct]

Yeah, read that one.

The guy used NITRIC acid to try to dye a SOAP BUBBLE!

Ouch!

The dye they use is pretty neat, though. A lactose ring that opens when exposed to heat or pressure, rendering the dye colorless.

[Kiless]

Yeah, just found it here:

Once he tried nitric acid, a toxic chemical that gives off red fumes at room temperature. "I got it making a really cool bubble, but it could've killed somebody," he recalls. "It ate through clothes." :eek:

[Elind]

Sometimes I wonder why students can claim science isn't fun....

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/0a03b5108e097010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

POPSCI EXCLUSIVE
The 11-Year Quest to Create Disappearing Colored Bubbles
Chemical burns, ruined clothes, 11 years, half a million dollars—it's not easy to improve the world's most popular toy. Yet the success of one inventor's quest to dye a simple soap bubble may change the way the world uses color

That was a cool link. Thanks

[CFLarsen]

Yeah, just found it here:

Once he tried nitric acid, a toxic chemical that gives off red fumes at room temperature. "I got it making a really cool bubble, but it could've killed somebody," he recalls. "It ate through clothes." :eek:
Sounds like a toy that will make gazillions.... :D

[PixyMisa]

Yeah, I found it a couple of months back. It's gonna be huge. And it's something that will sell steadily for decades. (Modulo the Singularity or an ELE.)

[Darat]

They look so much fun.

I'm glad I'm not a kid any longer - I'd have to pester like crazy to get a bottle or two but as an adult I can just buy them!

Also the spin-offs sound very intriguing.

[luchog]

They look so much fun.

I'm glad I'm not a kid any longer - I'd have to pester like crazy to get a bottle or two but as an adult I can just buy them!

Also the spin-offs sound very intriguing.
And they come in black. I see hundreds of thousands of Goths making this their new favorite toy.

[BillHoyt]

And they come in black. I see hundreds of thousands of Goths making this their new favorite toy.
C'mon, kids, think as only a strip club bouncer can. Think vividly colored outfits that can be made to *ahem* suddenly disappear. Move over Victoria. We gotta much hotter secret. We're talking totally planned costume failure, something the world has *er* never before *um* seen. :D

[BillHoyt]

The dye they use is pretty neat, though. A lactose ring that opens when exposed to heat or pressure, rendering the dye colorless.
That's lactone, a cyclical esther. Lactose is milk sugar.

[KingMerv00]

Yeah, just found it here:

Once he tried nitric acid, a toxic chemical that gives off red fumes at room temperature. "I got it making a really cool bubble, but it could've killed somebody," he recalls. "It ate through clothes." :eek:

Sounds like something the Joker would use against Robin.