The behaviour of the two phenomena due to cavitation - sonoluminescence and ultrasonic induced degradation of dissolved high polymers - does not agree with the idea that dissolved polymer molecules are able to act as cavitation nuclei.
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H.U. Borgstedt (1964) studied this question.
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