Re: microwave, RF heating

[John Barrer <forcejb@YAHOO.COM>]

I assumed JD's observation/comment described an expt
where equal masses of oil and water were
simultaneously exposed to MW radiation. That might be
an interesting test? John Barrere
--- Ludwik Kowalski <KowalskiL@MAIL.MONTCLAIR.EDU>
wrote:
> Opps, the last sentence should have been:
>
> It was actually heated less fast than oil, as
> expected.
>
> But I have a question. If I place two identical
> copper
> cups on the hot plate for the same amount of (short)
> time I can usually assume that the number of
> calories
> received by the fluid (in each cup) is the same. Can
> the same be said about the two plastic cups with
> fluids
> occupying slightly different volumes inside a
> microwave oven? I do not know how to answer this
> question. It is not a simple "caloric convection"
> mechanism.
>
> Another comment has to do with the original 20/20 TV
> program). Nothing was said about the mechanism of
> the
> suspected biological effect. In the case like this
> one must
> depend on "epidemiological data". But they did not
> proved such data either. At one point they said that
> somebody was looking for the correlation between the
> left or right handiness (of cell phone users who got
> brain
> cancer) and the of the head where the cancer was
> found.
> But that was followed by a "small print" comment of
> no conclusive evidence.
> Ludwik Kowalski


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