Michael Foster wrote:
Liquids with a high Kerr constant appear to heat up much more
quickly and efficiently than say, water.
Unless you tried a number of liquids to arrive at that conclusion (Kerr
constant) it would seem not to be justified by just comparing
nitrobenzene, which is very reactive -- with water, which is not very
reactive.
The more likely explanation IMHO would involve sonochemistry --and the
exothermic reduction of C6H5NO2. Phenyl groups are notoriously reactive
and sonochemistry is notoriously efficient.
Jones
