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sonoluminescence

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The production of light as a result of the passing of sound waves through a liquid medium. The sound waves cause the formation of bubbles that emit bright flashes of light when they collapse.

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  • noun physics The emission of short bursts of light from imploding bubbles in a liquid when excited by sound.

Etymologies

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sono- +‎ luminescence

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Examples

  • Their goal was to capture a fleeting phenomenon called sonoluminescence, and it would require an unusual medium — large amounts of xenon-infused sulfuric acid.

    Vitriolic Artists Send Visitors on a Sulfuric Acid Trip 2008

  • After five minutes in total darkness (to let everyone's eyes adjust), the audience is treated to a live demonstration of sonoluminescence, complete with the sound of the bubbles imploding.

    Vitriolic Artists Send Visitors on a Sulfuric Acid Trip 2008

  • Suslick and Flannigan first observed super-bright sonoluminescence in 2005 by sending ultrasound waves through sulfuric acid solutions to create bubbles.

    innovations-report 2010

  • However, Suslick emphasized that his group has not observed evidence that fusion takes place during sonoluminescence, as some have theorized possible.

    innovations-report 2010

  • Under the right conditions, these bubbles implode spectacularly, emitting light and reaching very high temperatures, a phenomenon called sonoluminescence.

    innovations-report 2010

  • Eddie Kasalivich, the hero of Chain Reaction, is an undergraduate machinist who once blew up a laboratory and who now has the good luck of being part of the hydrogen separation, sonoluminescence experiment headed by 60-year-old Dr. Alistair Barkley.

    BellaOnline - The Voice of Women 2009

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  • Isn't it amazing that sound can create light? We live in a strange world.

    July 9, 2011

  • This is one of the reasons I adore mantis shrimp.

    Edit: And the fact that I can write that here is one of the reasons I adore this site.

    July 10, 2011

  • this word and the effect is the topic of today's Minute Physics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yHDeKFW8j8

    June 4, 2013

  • To mantis shrimp the trick’s no feat,

    Just means to get the stuff to eat.

    They teach us no lessons

    In sonoluminescence.

    The shrimp is an artless synaesthete.

    February 1, 2018