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Jets from Hollows

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Bubbles rising through a viscous fluid deform and interact.  As they collapse into one another, the lower bubble induces a gravity-driven jet that projects upward into the higher bubble. The more elongated the bubble, the faster the jet.  The same behavior is seen in the rebound of a cavity at the free surface of a liquid. The authors suggest a universal scaling law for this behavior. (Video credit: T. Seon et al.)

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