Evidence of mass exchange between inside and outside of sonoluminescing bubble in aqueous solution of terbium chloride

Spectra of single-bubble sonoluminescence (SBSL) were obtained for Tb3+ ions emission lines from bubbles in an aqueous solution of terbium chloride (TbCl3). The spectra provide experimental evidence to prove that an air bubble driven by strong ultrasound will not eventually become a rectified pure argon bubble, which is not as predicted by the argon rectification hypothesis. The time-resolved spectra of SBSL show a mass exchange of material such as Tb3+ ions between the inside and outside of the bubble. With increasing sound pressure, the rate of mass exchange and the SBSL intensity increases.