1
Chemistry / Soap bubbles in the fountain
« on: 15/02/2006 16:12:18 »
Hi,
I have a water fountain that tends to suffer from jokers dumping soap powder, washing up liquid, shampoo into to make it foam.
Would running it with a brine solution instead of tap/rain water be able to beat the occasional high concentration of detergents?
Anybody got any other ideas on how to stop it foaming? (It's in a public place so has to comply with UK regs [] so nothing to caustic!).
How do the people who run the big public fountains manage to beat the would-be foam party 'little-darlings'?
I have a water fountain that tends to suffer from jokers dumping soap powder, washing up liquid, shampoo into to make it foam.
Would running it with a brine solution instead of tap/rain water be able to beat the occasional high concentration of detergents?
Anybody got any other ideas on how to stop it foaming? (It's in a public place so has to comply with UK regs [] so nothing to caustic!).
How do the people who run the big public fountains manage to beat the would-be foam party 'little-darlings'?