TIL supercavitation and sonoluminescence

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Supercavitation

Supercavitation is the use of cavitation effects to create a bubble of gas inside a liquid large enough to encompass an object travelling through the liquid, greatly reducing the skin friction drag on the object and enabling achievement of very high speeds.

Sonoluminescence

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Sonoluminescence is the emission of short bursts of light from imploding bubbles in a liquidwhen excited by sound.

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