Overflowing foam
Physically Engineering

Overflowing foam

If you blow slowly through a drinking straw into soapy water, soap bubbles are created. With a lot of blowing, a foam of many soap bubbles is produced. Our experiment works very similarly and produces so much foam that it overflows. We show and explain why this overflowing foam flow is so interesting and how we explore it using different measurement techniques.
Start 17:00 o'clock
End 23:00 o'clock

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Technische Universität Dresden (TUD)
Institut für Verfahrenstechnik und Umwelttechnik
Merkel-Bau
Foyer
Helmholtzstraße 14
01069 Dresden (Dresdner Süden)
10 Min
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If you blow slowly through a drinking straw into soapy water, soap bubbles are created. With a lot of blowing, a foam of many soap bubbles is produced. Our experiment works very similarly and produces so much foam that it overflows. We show and explain why this overflowing foam flow is so interesting and how we explore it using different measurement techniques.

Information on the event format

Experiment Presentation Suitable for children

stations

Nürnberger Platz

  • N8 (tram)
  • 61 (bus)
  • 3 (tram)
  • 8 (tram)