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Usually associated with an explosion is the concept of accompanying high temperatures, from several thousand degrees in explosions of conventional chemical explosives to millions of degrees in nuclear explosions. However, under certain conditions, very low temperatures, even close to absolute zero, can occur together with such high temperatures. No particular attention has been paid to this fact up to now although it is undoubtedly of great interest. On the basis of the results of calculations of an explosion-like process which occurs in the expansion of volumes of compressed gas, the author would like to draw attention to this feature of explosion flows.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 5, pp. 151–155, September–October, 1985.
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Shurshalov, L.V. Extremely low temperatures in the expansion of volumes of compressed gas. Fluid Dyn 20, 796–799 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01050095
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01050095