soap
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Watch Crews Move a 2.4-Million-Kilogram Bridge 33 Metres Using Dish Soap
The Utah Department of Transportation posted a video of a huge freeway overpass sliding down the freeway last week using teflon skid plates and a little drizzle of something you likely have in your home: dish soap. It’s a study on how something common and unassuming and make a huge impact when used effectively. UDOT…
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Mixing Oil, Paint And Soap Looks Like Flying Over A Distant Alien World
Video: The next time NASA releases spectacular footage from a flyover of a distant planet or moon, you’ll have good reason to wonder if what you’re watching actually came from a spaceship, or from a microscope in a studio filming oil, paint and liquid soap all mixed together.
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New Plastic Coating Will Let You Get Every Last Drop Of Shampoo Out Of The Bottle
Getting that last bit of shampoo or detergent out of a bottle is a total pain in the arse. Researchers have now engineered a surface coating that allows thick and soapy products to slide right out — meaning you’ll never have to store your shampoo bottle upside down ever again.
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The Spectacular Art Of Painting With Soap Bubbles
If you don’t know how they’re made, Jiří Georg Dokoupil’s paintings might look like microscope photos of phosphorescent deep-sea hydrozoa, or maybe computer-generated cartoon characters. Turns out, they’re actually the permanent evidence something way simpler: bubbles.