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In recent years, bulk nanobubbles (BNBs) have caught the attention of scientific and engineering community owing to their singular physicochemical features. One of these features is their strong electric charge which is believed to play an important role in their unexpected stability. The electric charge of BNBs open an unexplored possibility for heat and fluid flow. Here and in complete analogy with ferrofluids, it is investigated the induced electroconvection for a colloidal dispersion of subdomain electric BNBs (bulk nanobubbles-colloid fluid) in a liquid carrier — whose concentration is high enough to show a collective behavior similar than that shown by magnetic particles in a ferrofluid, and under the influence of an electrical field. Utilizing a simplified model an expression for the electroconvective Rayleigh number was derived.
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