Rabbit hole time--sonoluminescence in game animals after impact?

[PsRpOiGrRiAtM]

Maybe this has been asked before, but I've never seen anything like this discussed here or elsewhere.

When watching gel test terminal ballistics videos (who doesn't spend their Saturday evenings doing that?) it's pretty common to see the flash of compressed air igniting in a block of ballistics gel.

Do you guys think that would actually happen in a chest cavity of a cervid? Obviously in gel blocks, the entrance/exit holes are sealed enough to trap air an compress it to the point of rapid heating, but I wonder if that would ever happen in game animals.

if it DID happen, that's another variable to add to the trauma caused by bullets passing through vitals, but I doubt it has ever been able to be studied.

Of course this is just extra minutiae added to the milliseconds of time that it takes a bullet to traverse a chest cavity, but after watching it happen enough times in gel test videos I couldn't help but think of it in a hunting scenario.

What do you guys think? Especially curious as to @Formidilosus thoughts on this phenomenon.

ETA--I guess what had me wondering about it is the explosion inside the cavity; is it substantial enough and would it make a larger PWC, or just part of the TWC?

 

[hereinaz]

My guess is gel is a better match for density than for elasticity. Similar water density, but think about how skin, muscle, fat and tissue are different than gelatin.

 

[ozyclint]

Which bullet causes the most sonoluminesence?
Surely 77tmk's.

 

[PsRpOiGrRiAtM]

Which bullet causes the most sonoluminesence?
Surely 77tmk's.

Well that goes without saying...

 

[RockAndSage]

Not sure about sonoluminescence in live tissue, but when it's cold enough I've seen steam jet out of an entrance wound. Generally assumed it was hot air from lungs escaping under sudden pressure though.

 

[TradLife406]

Incase anyone was wondering

 

[TaperPin]

That’s an interesting question. Animals are a nice collection of things that burn under extreme pressure and heat so I can’t think of a reason why flashes wouldn’t occur regularly, maybe microscopic, if they are the type of thing you’re thinking of or something different.

There is steam and there are times what comes out of the hole smells burnt. I suspect a flash of some kind along with rapidly accelerated bits would go hand in hand.

Hopefully some you tuber with a high speed camera is trying to capture it as we speak to be the first.

 

[mxgsfmdpx]

Not sure about sonoluminescence in live tissue, but when it's cold enough I've seen steam jet out of an entrance wound. Generally assumed it was hot air from lungs escaping under sudden pressure though.

I’ve seen the same on adrenaline filled last breaths exhales multiple times with severed trachea from neck shots. Also seen it pour out on entrance and exit wounds multiple times as well.