Bubbles feel the heat

Mar 3, 2005

Physicists have seen a region of plasma in a single-bubble sonoluminescence
experiment for the first time. They have also found that the temperature
inside the bubble can reach up to 20,000 K (D Flannigan and K Suslick 2005 *
Nature* *434*52).

20,000 K seems pretty hot to me. I was hoping you had come up with grand
unification theory of cold fusion...

On Wednesday, July 18, 2012, Daniel Rocha wrote:

> Cavitation is common in very turbulent streams, there are indeed some
> reasonable qualitative explanations for it.
>
>
> http://www.turbulence-online.com/Publications/Journal_Papers/Papers/AG78.pdf
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> Sonofusion is a bit different. It might involve the high pressures, not
> sure how high. But the temperature is nowhere near the needed for hot
> fusion.
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> 2012/7/18 Chemical Engineer <[email protected] <javascript:_e({},
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>> Leclair claims it is the collapsing of the bubbles (created in his case
>> by cavitation from an impeller or laser) that triggers the fusion so I
>> think the end result is the same as in sonofusion.  I think we should all
>> share the nobel prize, next problem?
>>
>> --
> Daniel Rocha - RJ
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