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How is ultrasound used for cleaning ?

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Ultrasound is used in industry to clean 'hard to reach' parts of objects such as spiral tubes, odd-shaped machines and electronic components, etc.The object to be cleaned is placed in a cleaning solution and ultrasound waves are passed into the solution. Due to their high frequency, the ultrasound waves stir up the cleaning solution. Because of stirring, the particles of dust and grease sticking to the dirty object vibrate too much, become loose, get detached from the object and fall into solution. The objects gets cleaned thoroughly.
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