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Everyday Objects Placed In a Microwave

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the works-for-mythbusters dept.

Tom writes "Everyday objects can produce interesting effects when you stick them in a standard microwave. Grapes spark, matches create superheated plasma fireballs, mini lightning-bolts arc between sheets of aluminum foil, and soap both splits open and puffs up, creating a somewhat vulgar spurt of bubbly excrement that has to be seen to be fully appreciated. However, as cool as microwave experimentation can be, balls of plasma and the like are bad for both your eyes and your microwave, so it's probably best not to try these things at home. update This site apparently is behind a really nasty popup that I missed (yay Firefox) the first time through. You've been warned... here it is but given the overall rottenness of the pop-up, I guess I wouldn't bother. Some folks know no shame. My apologies to the readers.

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  1. Spam by Salvance · · Score: 5, Informative

    While the videos are pretty entertaining, there's a ridiculous amount of spam and popups (particularly on ie). After every video, I was taken to another site where it said I had to order a plasma screen TV just to watch the vid, uuggghhh.

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    1. Re:Spam by jginspace · · Score: 4, Informative

      Try YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=microw ave

    2. Re:Spam by BravoFourEcho · · Score: 2, Informative

      Don't have that problem in Firefox 2. Then again, it might have something to do with the hosts list I grab from here, too. But I'm betting on Firefox, since I don't gat "Page cannot b displayed."

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    3. Re:Spam by jcutting · · Score: 2, Informative

      If you are using IE7, temporarily change the pop-up blocker settings to High - it blocks everything, and you just get to the video pages when you click the various links - not one pop-up.

    4. Re:Spam by TCM · · Score: 4, Informative

      *I*'m using Firefox with noscript and didn't get the spam/pop-ups/redirects. Allow Javascript only for wontonway.com and you're fine.

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  2. Braniac has been doing this for ages.. by Channard · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not the superman villain but UK explosive science show 'Braniac: Science Abuse' - they regularly stick stuff in Microwaves, as well as do other things like demolish safes with tanks etc. It's a great show - here are the Microwave clips on Youtube - http://tinyurl.com/y6oan8

  3. Actually, it does work by dereference · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's a much better description.

  4. Re:Grapes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Answer. Enjoy!

  5. Warning Braniac does fake thier results by technoextreme · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.badscience.net/?p=270
    Presumably they ended up faking an explosion where they placed lithium?? (Something highly reactive around lithium) into the bath tub. It just didn't explode so they blew it up using explosives. Much worst than the Mythbusters where their explosions actually happen and if it doesn't they make it clear they are blowing up stuff.

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  6. Links directly to WMV's by HitByASquirrel · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/cd.wmv
    http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/chipbag.wmv
    http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/bulb.wmv
    http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/ornament.wmv
    http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/soap.wmv
    http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/matches.wmv
    http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/foil.wmv
    http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/egglow.wmv
    http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/lemon.wmv
    http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/GRAPEMED.wmv

  7. Google Ads + popups? by JourneyExpertApe · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's gotta be a violation of Google's terms of service.

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  8. Re:Photocamera by MankyD · · Score: 3, Informative

    Right, but it heats up for a different reason. Microwave energy directly transfers to heat energy in water. In metals, it generates electric current first which in turn generates heat due to electrical resistance.

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