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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.
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Publisher = {Exploratorium},
Volume = {2025},
Number = {30 April 2025},
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