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Brief description
A box containing some soap solution is used to simulate a grain structure. Rigorous agitation will produce an initial structure of many small bubbles (grains), whose evolution can be recorded. The soap film that separates bubbles has a surface energy, and the area of this will tend to be minimised.
Categories
Atomistic animations
Date
01/10/07
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Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

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