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MR. BLANCHARD is correct in inferring that the photographs of bubble bursts accompanying the communication by Knelman, Dombrowski and Newitt (loc. cit.) relate to bubbles in the size range 0.3–0.6 cm. Although our experiments did not extend to the smaller sizes to which he refers, there is no reason for supposing that the two separate mechanisms disclosed in the photographs are confined to narrow size-limits; nor can we agree that “intuitively it is not plausible” for such mechanisms to operate with smaller bubbles.
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NEWITT, D. Bursting of Bubbles at an Air–Water Interface. Nature 173, 1048–1049 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/1731048b0
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