When the bubble surface is stretched, net work done in the process gets stored as the interfacial energy.
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From Eq.(2.18) and (2.19) we get,
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When is nearly zero or approaches infinity, the pressure difference is nearly zero.
But interfacial tension becomes important when becomes small.
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