Although helium and xenon have very different physical properties, the similarity of their sonoluminescence constitutes a litmus test for theories. When dissolved in water at 3 torr partial ...

The process of sonoluminescence is shown in Fig. 1. First, at low sound pressure, the micrometre-size bubble expands, increasing its volume by a factor of 1,000. When the pressure increases again ...

When a gas bubble trapped in a liquid is destroyed by a sound wave, it can - under certain circumstances - emit light. The origins of this 'sonoluminescence' are still unclear, but a technique ...

Most studies of sonoluminescence have focused on the effect of adjusting the pressure on the gas bubble – that is, using different frequencies and intensities of sound waves. But these experiments ...

Mysterious flashes of light have always piqued our interest — and this is perhaps where sonoluminescence was born. When two German engineers were studying sonar — the use of sound to navigate ...

Sonoluminescence, the puzzling glow emitted by a bubble in a field of high-pitched sound waves, may be caused by a tiny jet of liquid that shoots across the interior of the bubble at supersonic speed ...

This phenomenon, called sonoluminescence, has been observed for decades. Now, chemists supported by the National Science Foundation have, for the first time, measured the chemical reactions and ...

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If nothing else, [Justin Atkin] is persistent. How else do you explain a five-year quest to create sonoluminescence with simple tools? So what exactly is sonoluminescence? The short answer is as ...

The basis of the new energy source would be so-called sonoluminescence–a phenomenon in which bubbles of vapor in a liquid bombarded by sound waves rapidly implode, generating heat spikes and ...