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The treatment of a pentadecane emulsion in water with a microdischarge at a
n aluminum valve anode was shown to yield as the major product a polyconden
sate which forms gas-filled hollow spherical entities. Some properties of t
he polycondensate were determined and a model for its formation was propose
d.