Electronic Resource
[S.l.]
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American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Journal of Applied Physics
62 (1987), S. 3477-3479
ISSN:
1089-7550
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
The maximum pressures developed for electric arc explosions in water range as high as 50 000 atm. It was thought that these pressures were due to a sudden heating of the water to high temperatures with resulting, and equally sudden, high pressures. There are several reasons why this hypothesis is paradoxical, the main one being that temperatures of no less than 107 K would be required somewhere in the water arc. In this communication we discuss recent water arc explosions performed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The unusual phenomena observed put these explosions in the category of experimental paradigm.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.339269
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