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Bubble cavitation is crazy. A bubble collapses so violently that, for a split second, it creates enormous heat, pressure, flashes of light and tiny jets of liquid powerful enough to eat away at metal. Something that looks like an empty pocket in water becomes an incredibly violent event.

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