TY - BOOK ID - 134522442 TI - Sonochemistry and the acoustic bubble PY - 2015 PB - Amsterdam, Netherlands : Elsevier, DB - UniCat KW - Sonochemistry. KW - Underwater acoustics. KW - Sound-waves. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134522442 AB - Sonochemistry and the Acoustic Bubble provides an introduction to the way ultrasound acts on bubbles in a liquid to cause bubbles to collapse violently, leading to localized 'hot spots' in the liquid with temperatures of 5000° celcius and under pressures of several hundred atmospheres. These extreme conditions produce events such as the emission of light, sonoluminescence, with a lifetime of less than a nanosecond, and free radicals that can initiate a host of varied chemical reactions (sonochemistry) in the liquid, all at room temperature. The physics and chemistry behind the phenomen ER -