| Abstract: | An oscilloscope is used to measure electrical resistance as a function of enthalpy in copper and gold during the process of electrical explosion of wire samples. The enthalpy at the initial point of the explosion process was greater in value than at the melting point of the metal. The electrical explosion phenomenon is considered from the viewpoint of the kinetics of the liquid-metalvapor transition under impulse-heating conditions. The  degeneration of the initial point of the electrical explosion for liquid-phase heating over periods less than 10–7 sec is explained by disruption of the stability of homogeneous-vapor-nucleus formation.Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Mekhaniki Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, No. 3, pp. 54–58, May–June, 1974. |
