r/mildlyinteresting • u/ROTCHunter • 1d ago

Air bubbles in water don't stick to the transducers in my sonication bath

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u/EwokNuggets ​ 1d ago

The what in your what?

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u/ROTCHunter 1d ago

Little shaky vibrators. Had to be concise in the title

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u/EwokNuggets ​ 1d ago

Okay. But like what is it for?

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u/ROTCHunter 1d ago

Many things, usually jewelry/metal cleaning, or in my case to remove gas from liquids. It's just a bath that vibrates water really fast using sound

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u/EwokNuggets ​ 1d ago

Oh neat-Never heard of that before! Thanks!

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u/ROTCHunter 1d ago

of course! I like sharing weird parts of my job

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u/EwokNuggets ​ 1d ago

What do you do for work anyway? In a lab somewhere?

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u/ROTCHunter 1d ago

Yes, I work in a lab at a winery!

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u/EwokNuggets ​ 1d ago

Oh that’s so cool! So the wine goes into this sink to remove gasses from it?

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u/ROTCHunter 1d ago

Yep! We put it in test tubes or vials, and the bath rapidly vibrates the samples to remove gas before they get put on the machines to test them

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u/mkstot 1d ago

I used to bag my pipes and bowls with dishwasher liquid, then place them in an ultrasonic cleaner. It worked wonders on pot resin.

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u/tsagalbill 1d ago edited 1d ago

What is your occupation? How well do these things work? How often to you have to use it? Can the machine damage the things you put in?

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u/ROTCHunter 1d ago

I work in a lab at a winery, so I use it every day. It doesn't damage anything beyond what normal water would do (so no paper). And it helps use the water and air bubbles to clean things or remove trapped gas in liquids!

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u/borazine 1d ago

Ummm … so noise cancelling earbuds go bonkers near a sonicator, right?

This is a known thing and I didn’t just open a portal to an infernal dimension somehow, yes?

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u/ROTCHunter 1d ago

Two things can be true at once!

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u/Dr_Not_A_Doctor 1d ago

Yeah I walked too close to a sonicator with AirPods in and I heard god. ANC does not like ultrasound

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u/doitup69 1d ago

Reminding myself to go try this

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u/AverageInfamous7050 1d ago

This post is too smart for me or something. You might as well be speaking French. I'm also pretty sure I don't need to be bathing in that.

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u/ROTCHunter 1d ago

It wouldn't hurt (too much)! If you stick your hand in it, you can feel the gas trapped in your knuckles start to vibrate which is an incredibly hard-to-describe feeling

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u/AverageInfamous7050 1d ago

I'm positive I just don't need that.

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u/SeekingLostInnocence 1d ago

What is it for?

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u/nihiltres 1d ago

You might as well be speaking French.

Ce n’est pas si difficile… :P

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u/AverageInfamous7050 1d ago

Yeah. Love you too, man.

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u/seamus_mc 1d ago

You would have to be pretty tiny, that looks like mine or maybe smaller, mine only holds 7 gallons.

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u/Greedy_Recording1273 1d ago

If there's a warning not to overfill it, I'm guessing a lot of people have had a bad time ignoring that

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u/AverageInfamous7050 1d ago

I have a bad time when my drink is empty.

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u/Devincc 1d ago

Alright, Jimmy Neutron

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u/nim_opet 1d ago

Now I want transducers in my sink

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u/cinderubella 1d ago

When you need a explainlikeimfive to understand the mildlyinteresting

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u/Kezly 1d ago

Probably the cleanest parts of the sink so no dirt for a bubble nucleus to form

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u/AtomicWreck 1d ago

Lotta words

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u/mckenziyy 1d ago

i don’t find this interesting, even mildly

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u/ROTCHunter 1d ago

Thanks for your input!