Ultrasonic irradiation effect in the quenched benzene

Abstract On slow cooling, a precursor phenomenon in supercooled benzene was probed by longitudinal absorption. On quenching, in-situ observation of ultrasonic measurements was carried out at the fixed temperature. Sequence of the transmitted waves was multiple scattered in quenched benzene. The dynamic ultrasound scattering is sensitive to the local strain and dynamic inhomogeneous fluctuations. The quenched benzene shows the maximum value of longitudinal absorption at incubation time, t inc . Crystal domain growth/coarsening is promoted by the ultrasonic irradiation at t inc t . In addition, t inc depends on the quenching temperature. Ultrasonic irradiation and quenching effects dominate the extraordinal nucleation and growth process of benzene in spite of simple and non-polar molecular liquid.