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If metal is left unexposed in a microwave oven, the metal will deflect the microwaves and cause sparks. However, if it is submerged in water, the microwaves dissipate and are absorbed by the liquid. In turn, the water is heated.
Perhaps but being microwave-boiled doesn't have anything to do with it. DO NOT BOIL WATER IN MICROWAVES IT IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS!
Microwaves align polar molecules such as water with the microwaves. This rotation generates energy, which dissipates as heat. So you would be cooked as if you were in a microwave oven.
It would be more accurate to say that microwaves can be converted to heat. A microwave oven is designed speicifically to heat water, or anything that contains water.
Microwaves use microwave radiation to cause water molecules to move rapidly and generate heat. It doesn't stand for anything.
The energy of microwaves are the same as the energy of the hydrogen bonds in water. So if you have a substance containing water and you bathe it in microwaves the energy istransferredinto the water, which then proceeds to heat the entire substance.
All a microwave does is send microwaves through objects and speed up the molecules. The reason the plants died is because the water was hot.
By bombarding the food with electromagnetic radiation (microwaves, which are tuned to resonance with water molecules).
A microwave is simply an instrument for producing microwaves ( these are similar to that of infra-red and radio waves), these microwaves that are produced in the microwave itself has the same wavelength of water and allows water molecules to vibrate. The increase in energy of these water molecules (the kinetic energy) can then be transfered (as energy is never created or destroyed) into heat energy. Therefore heating up the food/drink or what ever you are placing in the microwave, this is essentially how it works.
the microwave makes the water molecules in the food move and bump around this causes friction in the food to be cooked.
Most people would think that microwaves use heat to warm up the food, but that isnt true. As you know almost every food has traces of water. What a microwave does is it send microwaves which "excites" the water inside the food. When water is "Excited" it produces heat which warms up the food.
Because the microwave vibrates the water molecules in the food, heating it up.