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How a electric microwave works?

Updated: 8/17/2019
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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.

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