Voorbeelden van ablation

• Ablation is the intentional destruction of tissue, usually with heat.

• In most ablations the quantity of tissue affected is minuscule.

• In catheter ablation a tiny probe is threaded through the arteries to the interior of the heart, where it zaps a few cells that have occasionally been making the heart beat too fast

• Each year there must be a very slow sinking of the surface, but the ablation is infinitesimal. 

• We are of the opinion that this is just the main thermodynamic difference between the "cold" ablation and the organic material ablation.

• The outlet of the first shock in the gas induces a strong rarefaction wave which reflects also into a shock at the ablation radius.

• Only with the high exit velocities possible with pulsed laser ablation propulsion is it possible to overcome this problem.

• This brings to a decoupling of the laser beam from the target and, as a result, the mass ablation rate decreases with time.