IT is well known that the adiabatic compressibility β ψ of a liquid increases fairly rapidly with rise in temperature. The rise becomes more rapid as the temperature increases. With many liquids the ...

The study shows that the phenomenon can be produced by means of adiabatic compression, without any exchange of heat with the environment. The process aligns the spins of the material’s particles and ...

PREVIOUS work has shown that the sensitivity of liquid explosives to impact is greatly increased by the presence of minute gas bubbles 1. The initiation is of a thermal nature and is due to the ...