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Spontaneous self-organization of microbubbles in a liquid

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Optical microscopy of thin layers of highly purified water and aqueous electrolytes reveals spontaneous formation of micrometer-sized particles in liquids. Measurements of the optical density of the particles suggest that the particles can be gas microbubbles. In alkaline aqueous solutions with 8 ≤ pH ≤ 10, some degree of order is observed in the relative positions of the particles, which can be interpreted as the existence of one-and two-dimensional ordered structures. The results obtained can be explained by invoking a bubston cluster model.

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  1. Wave Research Center, Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    N. F. Bunkin

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Original Russian Text © N.F. Bunkin, K.V. Indukaev, P.S. Ignat’ev, 2007, published in Zhurnal Éksperimental’noĭ i Teoreticheskoĭ Fiziki, 2007, Vol. 131, No. 3, pp. 539–555.

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Bunkin, N.F., Indukaev, K.V. & Ignat’ev, P.S. Spontaneous self-organization of microbubbles in a liquid. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 104, 486–498 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063776107030156

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