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A sound so loud it instantly vaporizes water


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"Researchers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory based at Stanford University created an underwater sound so loud that it instantly vaporizes water and appears to set the threshold for how intense sound can be in water.

"The scientists used SLAC's powerful X-ray laser to blast tiny jets of water with short pulses of high frequency energy. When the x-rays hit the microscopic stream of water they instantly vaporized the water molecules around them like spit on a hot skillet."

Full report at cNet via MSN: https://www.msn.com/en-au/money/technology/stanford-scientists-created-a-sound-so-loud-it-instantly-boils-water/ar-AABFSJ3

At Science Alert: https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-created-the-loudest-possible-sound-that-could-ever-be-made-in-water

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Tesla would be so proud ;) 

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