Why Are Champagne Bubbles So Fancy Looking?

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Have you ever noticed that the bubbles in your glass of Champagne are just.... fancier than other sparkling drinks? They form those lovely little columns of bubbles in a way that nothing else does - and it turns out there's some neat physics going on in that champagne flute. Cheers to that!

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Sources:

SOURCES:
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-anchem-061318-115018
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/987507
https://journals.aps.org/prfluids/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.8.053601
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.02253.pdf
https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/edu/materials/what-are-cold-seeps-fact-sheet.pdf

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