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WolfWithoutAClause writes "Bored with making the same old food or
plasma in your microwave? David Reid sounds like he is. He's using his domestic microwave oven to melt iron, silver and bronze! Over 900C! I don't know about you, but I'm going to be checking the temperature of my pizza rather more carefully in future..."
I don't know about you, but I'm going to be checking the temperature of my pizza rather more carefully in future...
Who in the world microwaves pizza? It gets very soggy and loses almost any redeeming qualities.
"It must be stated that, at the out-set of these experiments, the researcher was completely ignorant of microwave technology."
Ack, I'm caught between rolling my eyes and saying "Well, a lot of progress is made by people who don't know what they shouldn't be doing."
What the hell, good luck guys. If you plan on reaching 900 degrees, I strongly suggest tearing apart that microwave and rebuilding it out of stuff that can take the heat.
Democrats or Republicans. They are both taking us to the same place and they are not afraid of us anymore.
When you are cooking pizza in a microwave oven, it won't reach such great temperatures because pizza is not a very efficient absorber of enrgy, newer microwave ovens have sensors inside to prevent the microwave from getting that hot, and if you removed those sensors, by the time the pizza actually got that hot, it would be a nice balck colour. However, when something such as water ( a very efficient absorber of heat is used ) care must be taken to prevent something such as this [abcnews.go.com]. ( Water being superheated then flash boiling when something is placed in it )
And so we go, on with our lives
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no, i've taken apart tv's... television sets are high voltage, low current devices. if you zap yourself on the tube, it'll hurt like hell, but won't kill you. microwaves are a completely different animal.. even if i did own the tool required to properly discharge a capacitor, what makes you think that there's only one cap in there that can kill you? unless you have the schematic/servic manual (which are typically only available to authorized service centers), you don't know for sure
anyways, even if this fear does stem from ignorance (which it does), just because i've been trained in a related area does not mean i even repair electronics for a living (i don't) or even have the desire to learn how to service a microwave (i have better things to do with my time).
anyways, i was just letting the less informed know about this; but since you're so gung-ho about these things, make sure you wrap your fucking balls in tin-foil, because these things can give off a dangerous amount of radiation also. but you already knew that, didn't you.
Water evaporates at lower temperature as the atmospheric pressure reduces. You wanna conserve loads of energy? Pump the air out of the dryer and apply a little heat.
Oh shit, patent, patent...
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