bubble stuff

[James A. Landau]

> -- Mark A. Mandel said:
>
> What do you call the liquid that comes in a bottle the size of an adult's
> fist with a wand that has a ring on the end that holds a film of the stuff
> that you blow through, or sweep through the air, to produce a trail of soap
> bubbles? I called it "bubble stuff" when I was a kid,


C. V. Boys _Soap Bubbles and the forces which mould them_ London: Society for
Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1890.  Available on-line at the Cornell
Digital Math Library http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cdl-math-browse.html

page 76 "...blow a bubble in the water against the match.  As soon as it
touches the glass plate, which should be wetted with the soap solution..."
and "...the surface of the soap water."

         - Jim Landau