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• Air is compressed until the piston reaches the top of the stroke.
• The "island" domains suddenly contract into the small circles we call bubbles.
• If stretched rubber is warmed, it tends to contract.
• The spheres are either growing or shrinking.
• This domain shrinks to an angular region.
• The initial closed surface shrinks to the origin.