Painting with Bubbles

I bet you have never thought blowing a bubble was science. Well I've never thought this either until a few weeks ago when my 7th grade class did a lesson on bubbles. It was very fun. Our teacher mixed bubble soap with different colors of paint, then she gave us straws to blow into the mixture, the mixture made bubbles and we put paper over the mixture to make a very pretty design. The pictures came out great, I took mine home and stuck it on my refrigderator! But there is more to it than that, what is the science behind it all? Is the mixture of soap and paint a compound, a mixture, or an element? When were soap and paint created? What makes you see the colors of the paint? Whats the point of blowing bubbles anyway? Well you can learn this and more right here!

Firstly, the mixture of paint and soap is a heterogeneous mixture because the two substances are mixed together but you can see the different ingredients in it. Paint was invented by cave dwellers. They painted pictures of animals. These paintings date back to about 30,000-10,000 bc. The first paints were composed of a basic four ingredients, pigments, binders (otherwise known as vehicles),volatile solvents and additives. The first bubbling soap was made by the ancient Romans in the middle ages. But I think the color is the cool part, but why is it that you can see color? You can see the colored bubbles on the paper because of light perception. Because color is the sensation that is stirred when light shines on the retina of the eye. Light can be seen either as directly from a light source or as reflected light. White light seems colorless because the eye is acustomed to the characteristics of this light. One really cool reason blowing bubbles is used is to calm your stress. It is belived by many scientists that blowing bubbles calms stress. This is why you feel good when you take a nice bubble bath! So now that you know all this cool stuff about bubble pictures you should try it, it is very fun and a great laugh if you do it with a few friends!

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