00:00Water boils instantly inside giant steel pipes when pressure drops too fast.
00:05Water plunges through the Panama Canal culverts over an 85-foot drop.
00:11This extreme pressure drop causes violent cavitation,
00:15where collapsing vapor bubbles pit and erode the steel.
00:19Engineers stop this destruction by shaping these giant culvert valves to bleed pressure out slowly.
00:25Special curves trick the raging current, so water boils instantly inside steel pipes.
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