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the microwave makes the water molecules in the food move and bump around this causes friction in the food to be cooked.
Zelda Heidenreich
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∙ 12y agoA)Microwaves are electromagnetic waves. The microwave oven generates
these and directs them into the cavity where food is placed. The
microwaves act on the water molecules in food, and because the water
molecules are polar, they will attempt to orient themselves according
to the passing microwaves. Because the microwaves are waves, they have
crests and troughs, and these will cause the water molecules to "flip"
continuously. This generates heat, and the heat warms the food.
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∙ 10y agoMicrowave ovens cook food by generating intermolecular friction between the molecules of the food. The microwaves cause water molecules to vibrate; the increased friction between the molecules results in heat.
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∙ 12y agoA microwave heats food by radiation
No, a microware works with microwaves, not radiation.
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∙ 14y agoMicrowaves make food molecules vibrate against each other, producing friction. this friction produces heat that cooks the food.
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∙ 10y agomicrowaves different waves at certain frequencies which agitate the water molecules in the food and heat it up.
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∙ 14y agoWith high frequency radio waves.
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Can microwaves cook food from the inside out?
no the microwave can not cook food from the inside out.
What waves can cook food?
Microwaves.
How are microwaves helpful in your lives?
Microwaves can be used to send signals or to cook food.
What kind of waves can cook food?
Microwaves
What does it mean when a microwave oven uses convection microwaves?
A convection microwave uses both microwaves and convection heating to cook the food. The convection cooking allows the food to be browned and cooks the outer part of the food while the microwaves cook the interior of the food.
Do any microwaves use light to help cook?
Microwaves use radiation to cook food and radiation is a form of light. They do not use actual light bulbs to cook though.
How do a microwave cook food?
By bombarding the food with electromagnetic radiation (microwaves, which are tuned to resonance with water molecules).
Hypothetically could sound be used to cook food the way microwaves cook food in a microwave oven?
Yes. But you wouldn't want to be near it. Yikes!
What is example of real-life waves?
Do you have a microwave?(hint hint!) they use microwaves to cook food.
Explain how microwaves generate heat to cook food?
The microwaves cause vibrations in the moisture molecules in the food and the friction causes heat. In this way microwaves cause food to cook from the inside out and is why it does not create browning on the outside.
A microwave oven is 70 percent efficient if it is supplied with 4000 jouls of electrical energy how much heat is used to actually cooked the food?
A microwave oven does not use heat to cook food like a conventional oven, instead it uses microwaves to cook the food. The microwaves produce the heat inside the food, thereby cooking the food from the inside out.
How do microwaves cook food?
the microwave makes the water molecules in the food move and bump around this causes friction in the food to be cooked.
