October 2022
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What’s New in Production: Tiny Bubbles

The concept of nanobubbles was not proposed until 1994, to explain the underpredicted attractive forces observed between hydrophobic surfaces in water. Their existence in a solution, or even if that were accepted, their ability to maintain their size and suspension in a solution, has been the subject of controversy and considerable experimentation.
Leonard Kalfayan / Contributing Editor

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