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Chemomechanics t1_j2jo4zg wrote

I don't really understand the way you're using standard terms. "Cavitation" typically refers to the formation and collapse of vapor bubbles in a liquid under low pressure. "Cavitated away and ruptured" doesn't seem to have any meaning for EM radiation. Please clarify your intended meaning.

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[deleted] t1_j2jol2j wrote

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Chemomechanics t1_j2jps99 wrote

> only it also works in glass and cells, which is a crystalline structure, and it also works in space, which is something idk.

This conflates multiple different phenomena. Without bringing in technical jargon, which tends to confuse the issue, what is the ultimate question you're trying to answer?

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chriswhoppers OP t1_j2jq3ya wrote

Can electromagnetic radiation be ionized away, or cavitated, or sonically ruptured through resonance, or perhaps radio frequency interference, can you remove unwanted radiation in the atmosphere with fairly simple means?

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ChromaticDragon t1_j2jsotw wrote

> space, which is something

I think this is the root of your trouble.

The easiest answer to your original question, I believe, is simply "no".

A deeper answer would be to redirect you towards learning the nature of EM radiation. Folk here are wrestling with this because it's hard to ascertain adequately the root(s) of your misconceptions.

To me, at least, it seems you're stuck in something akin to where people were more than a century ago where they were convinced light had to be a wave in some sort of medium which they dubbed the ether. You seem to be imagining "EM radiation" as some sort of disturbance in space whereby the space disturbance can be collapsed, ruptured, cavitated (whatever word you want). But our current understanding of EM radiation doesn't work like that... at all.

To better understand destructive interference of electromagnetic waves, you are going to need to fall back to learn about waves, in general. After you get used to constructive and destructive interference in waves of water in a pond, then you should wrestle with the medium-less nature of waves in the electric and magnetic fields.

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cvnh t1_j2js69m wrote

Cavitation is a phenomenon that occurs in masses of liquids (property of mass/matter). Liquids turn into gas at certain combinations of temperature and pressure, so at a certain temperature if pressure drops (e.g. due to fluid motion), vapor will form. Radiation (generically) is related to energy (it does propagate in the vacuum), thus it cannot "cavitate".

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