Play around with the two buttons in the simulation. Create as many soap particles as you want until all the viruses are surrounded by soap molecules and the surface is completly clean. Use the reset button to stain the surface with viruses again and restart the process.

This little game simulates what occurs when you clean a contaminated surface with soapy water and how the soap molecules take place in it, making the process much faster and efficient.

Before getting attached to a virus, soap molecules move freely throughout the available space. This type of random movement of particles in a fluid is called brownian movement and it is produced due to the collisions between these particles and the molecules forming the fluid, in this case, water molecules. Once a soap molecule finds a virus, it gets attached to its surface and loses its free movement. On the other hand, once soap starts interacting with the viruses, they start moving and getting solvated.

If you want to destroy the virus you find floating all over the place, go to the next stage. If you would like to learn more about soap and the science behind this proceses, click the learn more button below.

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