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It is shown that a new form of the plasma discharge with bulk glow throughout the space between electrodes and an descending current-voltage characteristic, occurring in liquid in an ultrasonic field with an intensity above the cavitation threshold, can be efficiently used to initiate the various physical and chemical processes. In such an acoustic plasma discharge, nanoparticles of oxides of various metals, i.e., aluminum, copper, tin, iron, titanium, indium, zinc, molybdenum, and others, are synthesized with controllable particle shape and size and narrow size distribution. Micrographs of some nanoparticles are presented. The difference in luminescence of particles produced in the absence and presence of cavitation is shown.

It is shown that a specific form of the electric discharge with bulk glow in the entire space between electrodes and an increasing current-voltage characteristic inherent to the anomalous glow discharge in gas can exist in a liquid exposed to an intense ultrasonic field above the cavitation threshold. Such a discharge can be initiated between planar or rod electrodes in liquid in the mode of developed cavitation excited by an ultrasonic acoustic field. It is found that a plasma pinch is formed during cavitation between electrodes immersed into liquid. The pinch is stable at relatively low voltages (∼30-60 V) and currents (4-8 A).

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