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Where Do Microwaves Go?
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Where do the microwaves go when you open the door of the microwave oven?
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anotheoldgit, surely there's a difference between electricity and microwaves? Electricity is caused by electrons moving from a source through a device and back to the source. So when you break the circuiut the flow stops.
Microwaves are waves of magnetic radiation (radio waves). When you switch off the source, there will still be some of the waves bouncing around within the oven. So when you open the door they escape.
Wasn't there a warning (or an urban myth) about cheap microwaves with poor seals that let microwaves escape resulting in male infertility?
Microwaves are waves of magnetic radiation (radio waves). When you switch off the source, there will still be some of the waves bouncing around within the oven. So when you open the door they escape.
Wasn't there a warning (or an urban myth) about cheap microwaves with poor seals that let microwaves escape resulting in male infertility?
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I'm not sure without looking into it. But I suspect the microwave case would absorb the microwaves.
In any event, it doesn't really matter. They only give the effect they do in microwave ovens because they're concentrated, with a standing wave pattern being set up.
Once released they'll rapidly disperse, and even if lots of them went straight towards your head, it would do absolutely nothing at all.
In any event, it doesn't really matter. They only give the effect they do in microwave ovens because they're concentrated, with a standing wave pattern being set up.
Once released they'll rapidly disperse, and even if lots of them went straight towards your head, it would do absolutely nothing at all.
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Sorry, anotheoldgit, I thought you were being serious. Everybody know that electricity just goes back into the walls. Houses wouldn't need walls if it we didn't have to keep the electricity in there.
You know where you are with electricity, apart from them little static b*ggers. Them microwaves, thought, they're the work of the Devil.
You know where you are with electricity, apart from them little static b*ggers. Them microwaves, thought, they're the work of the Devil.