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Making Antibubbles in Beer from Belgium
An anonymous reader writes "About.com reports on "Antibubbles in beer from Belgium". Scientists in Belgium have studied the movement of antibubbles (the exact opposite of regular bubbles) in Flemish beer. They found that the beer was very similar, but not the same as, dishwater.
You can also learn how to make antibubbles in your kitchen from soapy water."
Of course, some beers are more like dishwater than others.
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But does the beer explode?
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I'm off to the liquor store, then -- in the name of science, of course!
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How about making dishwater that tastes like beer?
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Antimatter Beer? That's a hell of a bite.
And why did you staple the trout to the RAM?
Do the antibubbles make you antidrunk?? or just antisocial?
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Ingredients:
Dishwater
Beer
In sink, add beer to dishwater. Stir.
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For anyone who's seen a slow motion video of a bubble bursting, that sounds like it looks very similar. The whole forming and bursting of antibubbles is interesting, because from the articles it sounds like they're very similar to normal bubbles. That seems like it would imply some kind of air-counterpart to surface tension.
At least looking at the picture for makign antibubbles with dishwater, these merely look like bicelles. Basically, the detergents line up so that their hydrophobic tails interact and their hydrophilic head groups form a barrier on each side, just like a lipid bilayer in a cell membrane. Air is in the tail layer, and water inside and outside.
sort of makes you wonder what the relationship is between science and beer with the amount of research that has gone into beer.
I mean.. how many articles have been on slashdot about "scientists discover why bubbles in beer go up/down/sideways in space/a vacuum/on the moon" etc etc.. Seems like hundreds over the years..
I am not complaining.. I mean, I sit there and look into my beer and wonder about the bubbles sometimes.. just wondering who is paying for this research?
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O'Douls can produce antibubbles? And if so would it then be an Antibeer Antibubble? Or is it still just gross.
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an antiburp sound like?
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An antibubble is a droplet of fluid surrounded by an gasseous membrane, as opposed to a fluid membrane around air. Of course, creating a gasseous membrane is a much more difficult proposition than creating a fluid membrane, which is why this is such an interesting discovery. (well, that and because it relates science and beer...)
When discussing the death of the antibubble, Dr. Dorbolo states:
Wouldn't an antibubble just decompose to form a regular bubble of gas within the liquid? Or is he saying that the gas is re-dissolved into the beer?"Scientists in Belgium have studied the movement of antibubbles (the exact opposite of regular bubbles)"
I always get a bit annoyed when I see this type of thing. Calling them 'antibubbles' makes them sound exciting, saying they are 'the exact opposite of bubbles' makes them sound intriguing.
The exact opposite of a bubble would be an airborn droplet.
These are 'hollow bubbles' if anything
Here is a link to an article . I looks like they produce a cell membrane with air in the middle.
This membrane is stable because the hydrophobic chains of the surfactant molecules are slightly electronegative.
I didn't find a video but, this site clearly explains antibubbles and includes several good pictures of them.