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Scientists Bubble with Excitement

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Kathleen G. Tatterson

If you've ever looked deep into a glass of champagne or beer you've probably noticed the strings of bubbles floating around in the liquid and have swallowed them without any great harm. But would you keep drinking if you knew that bubbles can start to glow when set into expanding and contracting motion, a phenomenon called sonoluminescence? A group of researchers at Göttingen University has set out to study this occurrence with bubbles made with nothing but light. They use a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser from the former JK Laser, now Lumonics -- a laser that already served to prove the...Read full article

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