chemistry

Princess Bubblegum

Princess Bubblegum is a chemistry topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Princess Bubblegum rather than just read about it. In short: Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum (also called Bonnie or PB, occasionally Peebles or P-bubs) is a fictional character in the American animated television series Adventure Time and resulting franchise, created by Pendleton Ward. Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum in the current time used to be the ruler of the Candy Kingdom, which other "Candy People" inhabit.

Key takeaways

Princess Bubblegum belongs to chemistry; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Princess Bubblegum to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Princess Bubblegum from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum (also called Bonnie or PB, occasionally Peebles or P-bubs) is a fictional character in the American animated television series Adventure Time and resulting franchise, created by Pendleton Ward. Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum in the current time used to be the ruler of the Candy Kingdom, which other "Candy People" inhabit. She is good friends with the series' protagonists Finn the Human and Jake the Dog, first appearing alongside them in Ward's 2007 pilot. Princess Bubblegum is the living incarnation of the Candy Elemental, formed from a massive, blob-like, pink gum biomass known as the "Mother Gum" in the years following the Mushroom War. In addition to ruling the Candy Kingdom, Princess Bubblegum is also a brilliant scientist, dedicating her life to improving the existence of her kingdom's citizens, regularly making scientific breakthroughs in her lab. Princess Bubblegum's sexual orientation has not been officially confirmed, however, in the series finale of Adventure Time, "Come Along with Me", she and Marceline the Vampire Queen shared an on-screen kiss, confirming their romantic relationship. A gender-swapped version of Princess Bubblegum called Prince Gumball appeared in the third-season episode "Fionna and Cake" and Fionna and Cake the show.

Character

Personality Bubblegum is typically very kind and compassionate, having a strong sense of justice, sometimes despairing of her responsibilities. She is brilliant, creating the Candy People and various devices, including a miniature time machine. She is fluent in German and Korean, using the latter language to communicate with her friend Lady Rainicorn. Bubblegum is skeptical of magic, refusing to acknowledge it as anything other than "scientific principles presented like mystical hoodoo." Bubblegum's leadership is paternalistic due to her subjects being naive and childlike. She believes that, without a guiding hand, they'd quickly destroy themselves. Bubblegum is highly protective of the Candy People and cares deeply for their safety, but is secretly strained by the pressures of ruling and expresses a desire for freedom from responsibility for her actions. Following a near-death experience at the end of the second season, she starts to isolate herself and becomes overprotective of the Candy People, even exhibiting authoritarian tendencies temporarily in the fifth season such as installing multiple cameras in the kingdom and implanting tracking chips in every citizen. At the end of the sixth season, Bubblegum is deposed as ruler following an election, where she realizes she has made the Candy People too unintelligent. Following the miniseries Stakes, Bubblegum is reinstated as ruler and becomes less overprotective.

Characteristics Bubblegum has light pink skin and long magenta "hair," which is made of bubblegum. Her usual outfit is a puffy-sleeved pink gown with purple trim, and her golden circlet crown with a turquoise jewel. Among many other outfits, she often wears a lab coat and glasses during science experiments. Additionally, Princess Bubblegum's crown and matching earrings have magic properties which protect her from the Lich's mind-controlling powers as seen in the episode "Mortal Folly". Being made of candy, Bubblegum can deform and reform her biomass, through which she can regain lost body parts and fluctuate her biological age. She usually appears bodily to be 18 years old, though her actual age is estimated to be 827; she was born hundreds of years before the events of the series from a gum-like ooze, the "Mother Gum." Bubblegum temporarily becomes 13 years old after the second season finale episode "Mortal Recoil" due to losing too much biomass after being possessed by the Lich, where she is voiced by Isabella Acres until the end of "Too Young" where she is restored to her 18 year old form. In the seventh season, Bubblegum discovers that she is an incarnation of the "Candy Elemental," the living embodiment of candy as one of the Adventure Time universe's four classical elements (fire, ice, candy, and slime). Like the Elemental, she can materialize various quantities of candy through her hands and communicate with past incarnations of the Elemental. When Bubblegum's elemental powers consume her in the miniseries Elements, she becomes psychically connected to all candy in the universe. She can transform others into candy, upon which they lose the memory of their life before their transformation.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Princess Bubblegum

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Princess Bubblegum claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In chemistry, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Princess Bubblegum before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Princess Bubblegum ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Princess Bubblegum

In research: Princess Bubblegum appears in chemistry research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Princess Bubblegum in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Princess Bubblegum is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Adventure Time characters, Animated characters introduced in 2007, Animation controversies in television, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Princess Bubblegum outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Princess Bubblegum in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Princess Bubblegum means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Princess Bubblegum out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Princess Bubblegum in simple terms?

Why does Princess Bubblegum matter?

Because it connects several chemistry ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Princess Bubblegum?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Princess Bubblegum.