Surface-active monolayers, bubbles, and jet drops

Duncan C. Blanchard

doi:10.3402/tellusb.v42i2.15204

Surface-active monolayers, bubbles, and jet drops

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volume 42 (1990): Issue 2

By: Duncan C. Blanchard

Open Access

|Jan 1990

Abstract

High-speed motion picture films (about 3000 frames per second) of bubbles of 0.7 and 1.3 mm diameter bursting at a seawater surface covered with an oleic acid monolayer show that the formation and behavior of the jet drops are profoundly influenced by the monolayer. It is doubtful, however, that monolayers on the surface of natural bodies of water exert as high a surface pressure as does an oleic acid monolayer. Natural monolayers probably affect film drop production more than that of the small jet drops that are important in atmospheric processes.

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