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Magnetic Soap Film

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Soap films naturally thin due to evaporation and capillary motion that pulls fluid toward thicker areas.

Here, magnetic particles have been added. They appear white and are drawn toward the (unseen) magnet on the left side of the frame.

With even more magnetic particles, the whole film takes on a clear variation in thickness from left to right.

←From Drop to Bubble

Sloped KH Instability→

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