Mad Scientist Invents Colored Bubbles

Anonymous Custard writes "Popular Science has a fascinating article up about toy inventor Tim Kehoe's quest to create colored bubbles. 'Chemical burns, ruined clothes, 11 years, half a million dollars--it's not easy to improve the world's most popular toy. ... It turns out that coloring a bubble is an exceptionally difficult bit of chemistry.'"

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Re:He's not a Mad Scientist!

[Muhammar]

Here is how you can make exploding bubbles by yourself:
1.Get the bubble toy solution.
2. Get the acetylene/oxygen welding torch to blow them.
3. make these suckerz and ignite with a long twig

(you do not turn the flame on when using the torch, of course).

This explosive gas mixture trick works with hydrogen/oxygen also (and you get lighter-than-air floating bubbles) but acetylene+oxygen gives *much* stronger bang for the volume. Once we filled modest-size thrashbag with the mix and it cracked the window (and our eardrums) - and yes, we were standing on the veranda outside the house.