X-Message-Number: 2001
Date: 21 Mar 93 01:46:23 EST
From: JOHN K CLARK <>
Subject: CRYONICS Blue Flashes

Seth Putterman and Bradley Barber at UCLA found that sound waves can
cause a bubble of air in water to change in size from 50 microns to
half a micron in less than 400 millionths of a second.This makes a tiny
sonic boom that heats the air in the bubble to more than 100,000
degrees,almost 10 times hotter than the surface of the sun. Most of the
radiation is in ultraviolet light but some small part is blue.They call
this Sonoluminescence.

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