Aging and bursting bubbles in trace-contaminated water

✍ Scribed by Andrew Detwiler; Duncan C. Blanchard

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1978
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 593 KB
• Volume: 33
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2509
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2509(78)85061-1

✦ Synopsis

The nse speeds and top jet drop ejectton heights of nsmg and burstmg bubbles m water are measured as a function of bubble age Equivalent spherical diameters range from 0 08~ d <O 12.5 cm Various types of relatively surfactant-free water are used Both nse speeds and top Jet drop ejecnon heights decrease with bubble age This IS due to adsorption of surface-active materials on the bubble surface which Increases the rigldlty of the surface and decreases Its surface free energy In general, termmal values of rise speed and ejecnon height are not reached at the same bubble age The ages at wluch these terminal values are reached are characterIstically greater for larger bubbles m a given water sample These ages are also characterIstically greater for bubbles of a gven sze as the concentration of surface-active material m the water decreases