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THE study of the physics of shock waves of sufficiently high intensity to produce appreciable gaseous excitation and ionization has in recent years become of increasing interest in relation to the gas dynamics of astrophysical phenomena and to the properties of gases at very high temperatures.
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HEY, J., PINSON, J. & SMITH, P. A Radio Method of determining the Velocity of a Shock Wave. Nature 179, 1184–1185 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/1791184a0
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