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A comparative study of the sonoluminescence spectra of water and argon-saturated aqueous H2SO4 solutions was carried out. At an H2SO4 concentration of 18 mol L−1, the sulfuric acid sonoluminescence is fifty times more intense than water sonoluminescence. The sulfuric acid luminescence spectrum differs from the water sonoluminescence spectrum caused by the emission of excited water molecules and OH radicals from the gas phase of cavitation bubbles. The sulfuric acid sonoluminescence spectrum exhibits maxima at 330, 420, 500, and 630 nm. Emitters of sonoluminescence of sulfuric acid are the singlet (330–340 nm) and triplet (∼420 nm) excited SO2 molecules formed by sonolysis of H2SO4 molecules. Another product of sonolysis of H2SO4, atomic oxygen, is assumed to be responsible for the luminescence at λ = 630 nm.
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Published in Russian in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 8, pp. 1742–1745, August, 2005.
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Sharipov, G.L., Abdrakhmanov, A.M. & Gainetdinov, R.K. On the emitters of sulfuric acid sonoluminescence. Russ Chem Bull 54, 1793–1797 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11172-006-0038-0
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