Soap Bubbles

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(c) Ian Alexander 1996-2005
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The surfaces of bubbles shrink because of surface tension (the pull of the molecules in the liquid is not balanced because there are no molecules above the surface) and tend to become spherical. Smaller bubbles tend to merge forming larger ones, so the pattern constantly reshapes itself.