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A two-dimensional foam consists of a monolayer of bubbles. It can be created by squeezing the more familiar three-dimensional foam between two parallel glass plates. We describe and explain the minimum plate separation H which must be reached to fully effect the transition from three- to two- dimensional foam. We find that H/V 1/3 is close to one, where V is the average bubble volume, and increases slightly when the side-walls of the container are taken into account.
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Jones, S.A., Cox, S.J. The transition from three-dimensional to two-dimensional foam structures. Eur. Phys. J. E 34, 82 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2011-11082-y
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