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Prof. G. D. West1 has used a smoke-filled cavity as a resonator and noted the stream of smoke issuing from a hole near the base; radiation pressure was suggested as a possible cause. In an alternative explanation2, Prof. E. N. da C. Andrade suggests that air is simply expelled during one half-cycle in a definite smoke-laden stream, and is drawn in during the next half-cycle, air being sucked in from all sides.
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SIMPSON, F. Flow of Smoke through a Hole in Resonant Cavity. Nature 160, 93 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160093b0
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