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Underwater Explosions (Science with Alan Sailer!)

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Destin from SmarterEveryDay enlists the help of high-speed photographer Alan Sailer to capture a series of astonishing underwater explosions. Some surprises in the footage lead Destin to delve into a very complicated problem in fluid dynamics.

As Destin refers to the phase diagram, why does he immediately exclude cavitation in the first scenario where liquid would turn into vapor?

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