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Why do you see colors on soap bubbles?

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It's called iridescence, which is an optical phenomenon which occurs when the hue of a multi-layered and semi-transparent object such as soap bubbles appears to change due to the phase shifting of light within the soap bubbles as the angle from which the bubbles is viewed changes.

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