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  • [Captions by Judy V. at Y Translator] In this video, we're going to take a look at a cool trick

  • using dry ice and bubbles.

  • Then we'll try and use the same principles,

  • and see if we can make bubbles that are full of colored smoke.

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  • I've seen dry ice vapor being used to fill bubbles before,

  • and it makes a sort of milky-white, not quite see through bubble,

  • that when it pops,

  • it just releases a bunch of carbon dioxide gas, and it looks really cool.

  • Steve Spangler had a video where he showed how he did that.

  • I wanted to try using the same basic setup that he did,

  • and see if we can recreate his results.

  • Then I want to see if we can use similar techniques to use the smoke

  • from a smoke ball to make colored bubbles.

  • Not just the white that we'll get with the carbon dioxide,

  • but I want to see if we can really get some like rainbow bubbles going on.

  • That should be pretty fun.

  • Here's the basic idea.

  • Dry ice in a container with some water will cause vapors to travel down the tube,

  • through our nozzle into our bubble soap.

  • Hopefully, making bubbles that are full of dry ice vapors.

  • We'll then try a couple different methods to get smoke from a smoke

  • bomb to fill bubbles the same way.

  • We've got a little plastic container with a lid on it.

  • This lid, if you don't put the handle down,

  • does a very nice job of popping on and off with no pressure at all,

  • and that's what we want for anything that's going to have dry ice in it.

  • We are going to have a hose running out that will relieve some pressure.

  • But it is dry ice.

  • We don't want it sealed in a container with a lid doesn't come off.

  • Our hose is 7/16 inch hose, and we're going to try drilling a hole

  • into the side of our container, just very slightly smaller than that.

  • So, when we put the hose in, it will just kind of keep itself wedged in place.

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  • This container doesn't drill super well.

  • I'm just going to patch that up.

  • Try again a little bit slower on the other side.

  • [Music]

  • Let's try this again.

  • Hopefully-- hopefully, it doesn't just keep cracking or we'll just end up with

  • an entire box made of electrical tape, with a hole punched into it.

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  • Okay, this style drillbit seems to cut into the plastic much more easily.

  • Of course, that's not quite the right size.

  • So now, we're going to try and widen it just a little bit.

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  • That is working great!

  • Hoses attached.

  • I can pull it out if I really try, but it does seem to stay in fairly nicely.

  • Second time's the charm.

  • I've got this little plumbing extension piece.

  • It's designed for switching from a type of hose to something that threads on.

  • We're just going to use this as our bubble nozzle.

  • So will fit this onto our hose,

  • and now we can dip this into our bubble fluid,

  • and hopefully, bubbles should come out.

  • We've got a couple kinds of bubble fluid we're going to test out.

  • This is just some water with some soap mixed into it,

  • and then I've got actual bubble fluid, and I'm just going to try both of these.

  • See what kinds of results I get.

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  • That's-- that's some bubbles.

  • Let's try the actual bubble soap.

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  • I guess probably not.

  • Too surprisingly, real bubble soap gives us better bubbles

  • than trying to mix up our own version.

  • There are some really good recipes for DIY bubble soap,

  • but I do think it's pretty easy to use the premade stuff.

  • It's not expensive, so we're just going to be using that today.

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  • We've got our container.

  • Here's a pitcher full of warm water.

  • Now, we're going to take a piece of dry ice, drop it into our container,

  • put the lid on but not seal it, so, it's still comes off nice and easily.

  • Not close down, which makes it grip really hard.

  • Vapor coming out of the nozzle just like we like.

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  • Take the lid off, and that stops, and in the bubbles and...

  • Oh, that works really well.

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  • It's great.

  • Because the nozzle has threads on it,

  • I think it does a good job of holding bubble soap for a while,

  • so we get a good amount of bubbles out of this.

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  • My fingers covered with soap.

  • So, I'm actually hitting the bubbles, but it just kind of bounces off them.

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  • Oh, that's-- that's good too. Get that.

  • This little contraption is easy to throw together, and it works quite well.

  • The dry ice vapor is starting to slow down now

  • because our water has cooled down considerably.

  • But while it was still nice and hot,

  • we were pumping out bubbles really nice quick.

  • It's really fun to watch them drop.

  • They're like translucence, but you can't actually see through them.

  • They're just light coming through,

  • and you know, if you've got a nice cotton surface,

  • these do a really good job of letting the bubbles be preserve

  • for a second to not popping immediately.

  • Or if you cover your hand in soap, then usually, you can touch the bubbles

  • a little bit like that as well.

  • Now, we want to see if we can create a similar effect using colored smoke.

  • So we'll try and light these off, and see if we can get them to fill a bubble

  • the same way the dry ice vapor does.

  • So my first thought is that we could maybe just take one of these

  • little smoke balls,

  • put it in a sealed container with a small hole,

  • and the pressure that builds from the smoke coming out

  • might be enough to just blow air powerful enough to blow a bubble on its own.

  • Let's build a little container that will hold these, and then drill a hole

  • into it and see if that's true.

  • To make our little impromptu smoke pressure chamber,

  • I've just got this little piece of PVC,

  • the smoke ball fits right in the side,

  • and then I've got a couple of pieces of wood

  • that I can just tape one to the bottom,

  • and tape one is sort of a hinge on the top.

  • That way, I can light the smoke ball, drop it in, and hold this down.

  • And that should give us a decent seal.

  • We can see if enough smoke comes out to blow a bubble.

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  • There we go.

  • That won't be a 100% perfect seal but I think it's going to be good

  • enough that we can see if this concept is going to work.

  • If it builds up enough pressure that it can blow the smoke out in one direction,

  • hopefully, that will be enough to blow some bubbles full of smoke.

  • To help to direct the smoke flow, I'm going to drill a small hole the same

  • way we did on the big one, and attach a small piece of tubing to it.

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  • Here's a little contraption.

  • So the plan, we light the smoke ball, drop it in, throw the lid down on,

  • and see how much smoke we get out of here.

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  • Quite a bit of smoke, good amount of color coming out.

  • The question is whether or not that has enough pressure to blow any bubbles.

  • This bubble one has several different bubble holes.

  • I'm going to try for this one right her,e because it seems

  • like a good size for the hose we've got.

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  • Well, my timing wasn't great.

  • But that still seemed like it just popped the bubbles like immediately.

  • Try this again, and you can time this better.

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  • It's not really blowing the bubble soap at all.

  • So I think, we're gonna have to come up with a different method to do this.

  • A lot of smoke does come out the nozzle but for whatever reason,

  • it's not really blowing anything at the bubbles.

  • I didn't even see the bubble soap start to move, and most of the time,

  • it just popped it immediately.

  • So let's move on to design number two.

  • Since this isn't putting out very much pressure, I want to try something else

  • where I build a device, fill it with smoke,

  • and then use my own lungs to blow air in, and have that travel through the container,

  • and out the other side.

  • Cut my piece of PVC pipe, and I've got two round pieces of thin plywood,

  • and I think I'm going to make those into the top and bottom.

  • So I'll tape one on so it's completely sealed on in,

  • and the other one, I'll add sort of a hinge

  • so I can just open it, drop the smoke ball in, close it again.

  • This tape here is just to sort of work as an improv gasket.

  • It's not as good as a real gasket, or even a Proto putty seal

  • but we don't need this to be 100% airtight.

  • We just need to contain most of the smoke.

  • That's our goal.

  • Okay, that's looking good.

  • Now, let's drill the hole back.

  • [Music]

  • Perfect.

  • Now, we need to drill the hole for the front piece of PVC.

  • This spade bit is going to make a hole.

  • That's just a little bit too large.

  • So after we put our piece of PVC in,

  • we're going to have to secure it with some tape.

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  • When I blow into this tube, It goes down into the chamber,

  • up through the chamber, and out through the nozzle.

  • So before we add any smoke,

  • let's see if this is going to work for blowing bubbles.

  • Just take our bubble wand, and see what we can do.

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  • We are getting bubble when we blow into the tube,

  • and hold the bubble wand in front of the nozzle.

  • I think it's time to add some smoke.

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  • That's a bubble full of smoke.

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  • Ah! Look at those bubbles.

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  • Now,. I'm just gonna keep doing this over and over till I run out of smoke balls.

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  • I'm pretty sure that some of the smoke powder that comes off actually

  • causes the bubbles to rupture.

  • You have to get just the right amount.

  • If you wait too long, then there's really not going to be much color left.

  • If you do it too soon, the chemicals seem to just destroy the soap bubbles,

  • which is problem I've had a couple of times now.

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  • That's the look.

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  • Oh man.

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  • >> Start.

  • I don't feel so good.

  • >> Dry ice bubbles work really well,

  • and smoke bomb bubbles work pretty well.

  • Not quite as uniformly or smoothly as the dry ice,

  • but we did get a lot of really good results.

  • That's something that I really want to take to another level.

  • I want to see if we can soup that up.

  • I'm thinking maybe a device that will automatically blow six

  • different colors of smoke at once.

  • So we can just sort of have a rainbow cascade of different

  • smoke-filled bubbles falling down.

  • That might be a video you want to look for in the future.

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[Captions by Judy V. at Y Translator] In this video, we're going to take a look at a cool trick

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