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What's going on? When you shake up your warm drink, proteins and fats in the milk act as “surfactants” that trap air bubbles and make foam. There are surfactants in sea water, too, which come from proteins and fats in decaying marine life. When seawater is mixed by wind and waves, air is trapped by the surfactants and sea fo

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