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Chris G:
I've been wondering where all the donut shops went to - now I know.  Seems like Safeway is the only place to get a donut around here these days...

Harry Potter:

--- Quote from: danny_galaga on April 21, 2007, 04:20:15 am ---
--- 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...

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OH shut up Mr know-it-all.

 ;) ;D

DrewKaree:

--- Quote from: shmokes on April 21, 2007, 02:01:17 am ---
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.


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http://www.snopes.com/science/microwave.asp

Define "fairly frequently". 

Picking the cup up is stated to be enough to cause this rare phenomenon in testing, so the odds that someone is steady-handed enough to pull it out of the mic and bring it to a place under their face is sketchy at best, and unless it's happened to you, the "explosion" could simply be enough to raise the water up and out of the container it's in and not the "cover the walls" type of explosion implied.

Save your face from asploding water and throw a stir stick in whenever you heat water in the mic.  Problem solved ::) 

ChadTower:

I've had superheated liquids from a microwave pop on my wrist a few times.  As it's boiling, it generates bubbles, yes?  Well, when you pull it out without giving it a chance to stabilize (now that the heating energy is removed), it shifts the liquid, causing any major air bubbles in the liquid to suddenly jump to the surface.

I haven't had it happen with just water but I've had things with sauce pop a sudden splash on my wrist.  Hurts like a ---smurfette---.  It's not hard to prevent with only a little care but it's one of those things that you have to actually see happen before you know it might.

Grasshopper:
It's a genuine phenomenon and it's happened to me several times. For example, if you add sugar to coffee (and presumably any other beverage) that's been superheated in a microwave, the coffee will suddenly boil over in an explosive way. It's actually quite dangerous.

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