MEANING
The emission of brief flashes of light by tiny gas bubbles in a liquid when driven by sound waves.
Use it for
Uncanny underwater light, acoustic experiments, and a sound-to-sight image grounded in physics.Use when a scene needs a real phenomenon that makes sound appear to generate light.
On the page
In the dark tank, sonoluminescence flickered blue around the resonating bubble.
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