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Re: [Phys-l] Why ants survive in a micro wave oven. [Obviously "off list"!]



Most microwave ovens have a glass turntable that would get the ant away from the metal wall by a significant fraction of a wavelength.
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At 4:58 PM +0000 2/9/12, David Bowman wrote:
Are the ants suspended in the middle of the oven cavity, or are they walking on the metallic walls of the oven (which for the microwaves are nodes)? If the latter, their small body size compared to the wavelength protects them from large field intensities.

David Bowman

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From: phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu [mailto:phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu] On Behalf Of John Mallinckrodt
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Subject: Re: [Phys-l] Why ants survive in a micro wave oven. [Obviously "off list"!]

Well... *A* water molecule really can't "get hot."

chuck britton wrote:

But - water molecules are even smaller than ants - and water molecules get hot.

John Mallinckrodt
Cal Poly Pomona
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