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The 11-Year Quest to Create Disappearing Coloured Bubbles

By Red Wolf

21 November 2005

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Chemical burns, ruined clothes, eleven years, half a million dollars — it’s not easy to improve the world’s most popular toy. Yet the success of Tim Kehoe’s quest to dye a simple soap bubble may change the way the world uses colour

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