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I HAVE proposed1 that the nucleation of freezing by cavitation is caused, in all supercooled liquids, by the high compressions generated near the surfaces of collapsing cavitation bubbles. I have assumed1 that the compression is isentropic. Recently, Hunt and Jackson suggested that this assumption is erroneous and that the Rankine–Hugoniot relations across a shock wave front are a more realistic representation of the thermodynamic behaviour of the liquid during cavity collapse2. Because the theory of nucleation that I propose is apparently2 dependent on the validity of the isentropic assumption it is necessary to decide which of the two thermodynamic states is more appropriate.
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Hickling, R., Nature, 206, 4987 (1965).
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Hickling, R., and Plesset, M. S., Phys. Fluids, 7, 1, 7 (1964).
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HICKLING, R. Nucleation of Freezing by Cavitation in Supercooled Liquids. Nature 214, 379 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/214379b0
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