If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#31
|
|||
|
|||
I tried it 47 times, and was perfectly consistent. I think I could repeat this over and over, and get the same results forever. I've had sensitivity training (evident from my posts here), and to me, microwaved water seems warmer than non-microwaved water. You can easily fake the effect with a gas oven or a traditional electric oven Or even a stove or lowly hotplate. Kurt (So, does that mean we are up to $5 million between us?) Ullman -- "Even I realized that money was to politicians what the ecalyptus tree is to koala bears: food, water, shelter and something to crap on." ---PJ O'Rourke |
#32
|
|||
|
|||
"Mr. 4X" wrote in message ... 3. Radiation could leak if the door doesn't close completely (this can happen only if the door is damaged or blocked by a cloth or something). Unlikely even then. Most have a clever mechanical switch to prevent power being applied unless the door is closed AND latched. If you try and shut the door with anything thicker than say paper in the way it;s not possible to turn it on. I've just taken my microwave apart and had a good look at the door switch. Its very clever. The lock is designed so that when you push the button to open the door it turns off the power well before the mechanical door lock even starts to move. There is then a second switch that opens and only then does the door open move. It's simply not possible for the microwave to be switch on with the door open or even with the door firmly closed and the latch itself open. |
#33
|
|||
|
|||
Microwave radiation isn't ionizing, which means it doesn't cause the kind
of damage to cells that would cause cancer. It's potentially dangerous because it can cook something from the inside out, as Air Force experiments on dogs showed quite well back in the 60's (also why you should never try and dry out your dog or cat in a microwave, just like the urban legend). But that's why they have safety interlocks on the doors. You know, you could get into the same kind of trouble sticking your head into a convection oven at 450 degrees... I bet if you stuck a glass of water outside a microwave with a thermal probe in it, you wouldn't detect the water going up in temperature even a tenth of a degree. |
#34
|
|||
|
|||
"magnulus" wrote in message
... I bet if you stuck a glass of water outside a microwave with a thermal probe in it, you wouldn't detect the water going up in temperature even a tenth of a degree. Unless you compensate for evaporation, it would go DOWN. 2.45GHz leakage from any design-to-code, non-malfunctioning microwave oven approaches zero. And squacube shows that the water had best be only centimeters from a leak in order to be affected. |
#35
|
|||
|
|||
"CWatters" wrote in message
: "Mr. 4X" wrote in message ... 3. Radiation could leak if the door doesn't close completely (this can happen only if the door is damaged or blocked by a cloth or something). Unlikely even then. Most have a clever mechanical switch to prevent power being applied unless the door is closed AND latched. If you try and shut the door with anything thicker than say paper in the way it;s not possible to turn it on. I've just taken my microwave apart and had a good look at the door switch. Its very clever. The lock is designed so that when you push the button to open the door it turns off the power well before the mechanical door lock even starts to move. There is then a second switch that opens and only then does the door open move. It's simply not possible for the microwave to be switch on with the door open or even with the door firmly closed and the latch itself open. It's good that newer models have better safety mechanisms. |
#36
|
|||
|
|||
"Mr. 4X" wrote in message ... It's good that newer models have better safety mechanisms. Actually it's 12 years old - I only took it apart because it finally expired. |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Corners and ovens: The fears of an old parent of a young child | Ann Porter | General (moderated) | 2 | March 4th 04 07:04 PM |
misc.kids FAQ on Starting Solid Foods | [email protected] | Info and FAQ's | 0 | January 16th 04 09:15 AM |
Avent microwave sterilser instructions? | Rebecca | Breastfeeding | 7 | November 18th 03 10:25 PM |
Mystery MILITARY deaths fuel vaccine anxieties | john | Kids Health | 2 | September 18th 03 07:27 PM |
Age to use microwave | JustMe | General | 26 | September 10th 03 01:56 AM |