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This Exploratorium site provides an explanation of how soap films produce color bands. Wave interference is used to explain the colors observed without mathematics. Photos illustrate the phenomenon and drawings help make the explanation clear.

https://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/bubbles/bubble_colors.html

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Optics - Color - Interference = Thin Films	- High School - Lower Undergraduate	- Reference Material

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Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: Has a copyright or other licensing restriction.
Keywords:: Soap film, cancel, cancellation, reinforce, superposition, wavelength
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created June 18, 2008 by Logan Hancock
Record Updated:: June 19, 2008 by Ed Lee
Other Collections:: The Physics To Go

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