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← ScienceWhich consequence results when superfluid helium-4 undergoes rapid depressurization?
A)Increased Bose-Einstein condensate fraction
B)Onset of quantized vortex shedding
C)Boiling transition causing rapid heating✓
D)Dramatic viscosity increase above lambda
💡 Explanation
Rapid depressurization triggers nucleate boiling because latent heat demand exceeds conductive heat supply, therefore helium transitions violently to a gaseous state, rather than a continuous superfluid film since temperature cannot remain constant.
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