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The tensile strength or the limit on the cavitation pressure of liquid nitrogen has been measured using high intensity ultrasound at both 1 and 2 Mhz. The ultrasound was focused into a small volume of liquid nitrogen by concave piezoelectric transducers with spherical symmetry. The pressure amplitude of the ultrasound at the focus was determined from the geometry and the pressure at the transducer surface using Debye’s theory. Scattering of HeNe laser light from the focal region of the piezoelectric transducer indicated cavitation. The measured values of the cavitation pressure were observed to be in agreement with the homogeneous nucleation theory in the temperature range of 77 K to 100 K for a nucleation rate of approximately 106 to 1011 critical size bubbles/s cm3.
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Huang, J., Nissen, J.A., Bodegom, E. (1994). Measurements of the Tensile Strength of Liquid Nitrogen. In: Kittel, P. (eds) Advances in Cryogenic Engineering. Advances in Cryogenic Engineering, vol 39. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2522-6_234
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