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I stopped reading at "longer wavelength radiation than a standard microwave." A microwave do not irradiate your food. Rather, it uses an oscillating magnetic f
by glitchc 3y ago
I stopped reading at "longer wavelength radiation than a standard microwave."
A microwave do not irradiate your food. Rather, it uses an oscillating magnetic field to induce dipole heating (in mainly water molecules but also other dipoles that may be present in the food).
- aceki 3y ago…electromagnetic radiation?
- glitchc 3y agoEdit: I stand corrected.
- mckn1ght 3y agoHuh, TIL. So is this the same principle used in an induction stove top to heat the pan, just applied to water molecules instead of metal?
- Terr_ 3y ago> [No electromagnetic radiation] whatsoever in a microwave. WTF!? Is this leaking out of some kind of weird electromagnetic health conspiracy theory subculture? Any trivial web search provides an avalanche of results explaining otherwise--that your microwave oven definitely uses electromagnetic radiation--including the EPA and FDA. Or is your thesis that everybody else is wrong about wave-particle duality and photons aren't real?
- bagels 3y agoMagnetic fields radiate. It's radiation. It's just that it's not ionizing radiation.
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