Sonication

Okay kiddo, have you ever seen bubbles in your bath time? Imagine that but with tiny bubbles that are so small that you cannot see them. Now, let's take a jar of water and put those tiny bubbles in it. We already know that those bubbles make a sound - a very high pitched sound that we cannot hear. This process of making sound waves in the water by using those tiny bubbles is called sonication.

Sonication is like tickling your food or cells with sound waves to make them break down or mix up more easily. So, scientists use this process to do things like extract DNA from cells, get rid of air bubbles in liquids, or break up clumps of particles in liquids. It's just like shaking a jar of sand so the sand will spread out evenly in the jar.

Basically, sonication uses sound waves to make things happen under water- it's like singing a song to make something dissolve or mix up. And that's how sonication works!