cavitation

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The major limitations with this approach are that is it only qualitative, and that it lacks repeatability: it cannot reliably resolve the "hot and cold" regions where cavitation (and hence cleaning activity) varies within the liquid.

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  1. noun The sudden formation and collapse of low-pressure bubbles in liquids by means of mechanical forces, such as those resulting from rotation of a marine propeller.
  2. noun The pitting of a solid surface.
  3. noun Medicine The formation of cavities in a body tissue or an organ, especially those formed in the lung as a result of tuberculosis.

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  • Hydrogen bubbles have been hydrosonically imploded (cavitation) creating heat and light (1 million degrees centigrade if I remember correctly) for some nanoseconds. —  The Explosives and Weapons Forum: Let's outshine the sun
  • In the eighth second of the cavitation, billowing shock waves, aflame, gave the rent Moon the appearance of a burning bush in space. —  FIASCO - Stanislaw Lem
  • For the cavitation of the planet, he added, they lacked the power. —  FIASCO - Stanislaw Lem
  • At that point, the liquid will partially "flash" into bubbles of vapor and the subsequent collapse of the bubbles causes [[cavitation]]. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Ultrasound vibration causes cavitation, which are the transient high-energy microbubbles formed when a liquid medium has 20-100 kHz acoustic frequencies applied to it. —  LabTechnologist RSS
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