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During seven different parabolic flight sessions, and a total of 92 parabolas,Hervé Caps and his team tested four hypothetical cases:

1.    The detergent alone under normal gravity conditions (stationary flight)
2.    The detergent alone in microgravity conditions (during 20 parabolic seconds)
3.    The detergent and the antifoam in normal gravity
4.    The detergent and the antifoam in microgravity conditions

A high-speed camera, recording 200 images per second filmed the liquid inside the transparent cylinder, in such a way as to measure the volume of foam produced in each of the above four experimental conditions as well as the stability of the foam and the amount of time it lasts.