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Stretched to the limit

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Liquid water expands when heated — or cooled — away from a particular temperature that increases when the fluid is stretched. Experiments on water under extreme tension now enable tracking of this distinctive behaviour well into the negative-pressure domain.

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Figure 1: Schematic representation of a cavitation experiment.

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  1. Pablo Debenedetti is in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA,

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