{"id":24,"date":"2017-01-25T10:17:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T10:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giacomomiceli.com\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2022-03-05T07:24:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T07:24:52","slug":"alpheidae-the-fireball-throwing-shrimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamez.it\/blog\/2017\/01\/25\/alpheidae-the-fireball-throwing-shrimp\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpheidae, the fireball-throwing shrimp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-27\" src=\"http:\/\/www.giacomomiceli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/270915898_3b84f9d176_o-1024x598.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jamez.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/270915898_3b84f9d176_o-1024x598.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jamez.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/270915898_3b84f9d176_o-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jamez.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/270915898_3b84f9d176_o-768x449.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jamez.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/270915898_3b84f9d176_o.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Alpheidae&amp;oldid=761339549\">[Citation not needed]<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The snapping shrimp competes with much larger animals such as the sperm whale and beluga whale for the title of loudest animal in the sea. The animal snaps a specialized claw shut to create a cavitation bubble that generates acoustic pressures of up to 80 kPa at a distance of 4 cm from the claw. As it extends out from the claw, the bubble reaches speeds of 97 km\/h and releases a sound reaching 218 decibels. The pressure is strong enough to kill small fish. [&#8230;] The snap can also produce sonoluminescence from the collapsing cavitation bubble. As it collapses, the cavitation bubble reaches temperatures of over 5,000 K (4,700 \u00b0C). In comparison, the surface temperature of the sun is estimated to be around 5,800 K (5,500 \u00b0C).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not too bad for a sushi topping.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.giacomomiceli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/sun.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; [Citation not needed] The snapping shrimp competes with much larger animals such as the sperm whale and beluga whale for the title of loudest animal in the sea. The animal snaps a specialized claw shut to create a cavitation bubble that generates acoustic pressures of up to 80 kPa at a distance of 4 &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"understrap-read-more-link button button-black\" href=\"https:\/\/jamez.it\/blog\/2017\/01\/25\/alpheidae-the-fireball-throwing-shrimp\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[78,5,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamez.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamez.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamez.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamez.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamez.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jamez.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3364,"href":"https:\/\/jamez.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/3364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamez.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamez.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamez.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}