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shmokes:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on April 20, 2007, 05:19:16 pm ---
To try this out, I taped a 1.5" square and .25" thick piece of cheese to the microwave door. I put a mug of water in the microwave and ran it for 60 seconds on high. The cheese was straight out of the fridge. After 60 seconds it was still cool but warmed more than it would have been in 60 seconds on the counter. Not much more, but it was probably warmed by the microwave a tiny bit. My microwave is small and not very powerful, an older economy model.
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It sounds like you're testing the hot dog thing and not the superheated water thing.
As far as the tea tasting better, I fully acknowledge that that could be in my head. But the superheated water thing is definitely not. People actually get injured by this fairly frequently. A microwave oven often heats water well past boiling temperatures without actually boiling it. Then, when the water is disturbed, such as after it's been taken out of the microwave and is being held right under someone's face, it will basically explode because it is so hot that when it is disrupted enough to start boiling it ---smurfing--- goes to town.
danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: Harry Potter on April 19, 2007, 11:36:58 pm ---Cell phones work on RF, not microwave.
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its all electromagnetic energy. from wikipedia:
Mobile phones and the network they operate under vary significantly from provider to provider, and nation to nation. However, all of them communicate through electromagnetic microwaves with a cell site base station, the antennas of which are usually mounted on a tower, pole, or building.
just different lengths in the spectrum. infrared is at the low end for instance, you have light, ultravoilet, radio etc...
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: shmokes on April 21, 2007, 02:01:17 am ---It sounds like you're testing the hot dog thing and not the superheated water thing.
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I didn't say anything about testing superheated water.
shmokes:
Well, you quoted my bit about superheated water and then started describing your experiment with the words, "To try this out . . .," so it seemed like that's what you were referring to.
billf:
We were just in Boston for the Boston Marathon - my wife ran it. Before leaving town the next day we stopped in a Dunkin' Donuts. I had a cup of the hottest coffee on the planet. No microwave used - it came right out of the pot on their hot plates used to keep the coffee hot. I put a lid on it and it stayed hot for a very looong time. I think this coffee was just a degree from the boiling point. So you can get water/coffee superheated without using a microwave.
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