What happens if you microwave water and water plant with it?
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Nothing.  Except have a lower water volume due to warmer water molecules converting to gas.  However, the warmer water may have an efffect on the plants you are studying.  If you water a plant with hot water it may kill the plant.
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No.  The electric heating element is insulated and does not conduct power into the water and surrounding metal containers.
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There are two different "environmental conditions" which would affect the water: very low pressure and very low temperature.\nThe first thing to happen is that the water would "boil" (that is start to turn into a vapor).  This would be described as a "vacuum distillation."  This process (which removes heat from the liquid water), combined with the already low temperature would remove enough heat for the water to freeze.\nIf the container was allowed to remain exposed, the solid water would slowly continue to "sublime" (turn into a vapor under reduced pressure) until some sort of equilibrium was reached.\nNo.  I do not believe that this experiment has been tried, or if tried, the results released to the general public.
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No , I think ? Microwaves would not have enough forces ???? Any way it would be insreresting to research   Go for it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hey \n  every year i do a science fair project on plants and last year i learned how it happens.  First of all it is called absorbtion  Next, the water is sucked up by the ruts when the plant is looking for nutrients. then it takes the water to a different part of the (stomach) of the plant and it eats the water.\n  Hope i helped
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Not very well. Biscuits need time to rise while they cook. With a microwave you just get hot biscuit dough.
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Maybe a regular piece of paper, as long as you are right there to watch it and if it starts to burn hurry up and take it out.  It depends on the microwave and how old it is.  I have done it with mine and it was ok.  Be careful.
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Yes!\n\nAs it turns out, radio waves are nothing more\nthan the propagation of electrical and magnetic\nfields through space--the E & M fields perform\nan intricate dance around each other and fly\nthrough space.  So yes, you can transmit\nenergy through the air and "catch it" with\na receiver antenna. That's exactly\nwhat a microwave oven does:  the business\nend of a microwave is a transmitter and antenna,\nand the food is the receiver.\n\nI suspect the energy needed to propel\na car-sized vehicle, however, would involve \ndangerous amounts of power.  Any bird, pet,\nor human which passed between transmitter and\nvehicle would be zapped.  Streets\nwould be littered with smoking corpses, and\nyou'd smell BBQ all day.\n\nBut hey, BBQ ain't a bad thing!
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Microwaves and ocean waves share one common characteristic:\nIt is the transfer of energy through a medium.  The waves have a variable intensity.  For a microwave it is electromagnetic energy traveling at the speed of light with a frequency in the giga-hertz range.  For an ocean wave is the transfer of mechanical energy at a frequency of 1 per 30 seconds or so.  The height of the wave is proportional to the amount of energy and the depth of the water.\n\nIn the case of communications, the microwave energy is modulated to transmit information according to the modulation protocol and frequency.\n\nI hope that helps.\n\nBy the way, microwave energy is used in microwave ovens because the frequency of the microwave causes the water molecules in the food to react and heat.  This is because the water molecule is a bipolar molecule with a resonanat frequency that gets matched up to the microwave and thus converts the electromagnetic energy into kinetic energy, which gets converted to heat.\n\nj
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1. microwaves heat water faster than boiling it over a heat source.\n\n2. microwaves have a more direct effect on an atom, since the energy is transferred directly form the MW to the atom, unlike the boiling water where it is transferred from heat source to water to the thing (w/ enzymes). the longer path means longer time.\n\n3. since the atoms (or molecules for enzymes) directly interact with the MWs, they are more likely to be destroyed than when boiling water is used. Hence the shorter time to ensure deactivation, and not destruction, is achieved
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the short answer is no. \n\nA microwave does not pass heat to the food the way an oven does, instead a microwave utilizes the principle of dielectric heating. basically what this means is that the microwave (which is an invisible form of everyday light) is made of an electromagnetic wave. This electromagnetic wave is passed throughout the cooking chamber where it interacts with the food. Heres the thing...most molecules are dipoles which means that they have a negative and a positive side to them.....the electromagnetic microwave interacts with the molecules and makes them dance to line up with the feild. Its this motion of the molecules that creates the heat. Microwaves have been designed to interact primarily with water molecules because most food has some water in it. This doesn not mean that other dipolar molecules in plates, cups or utensiles would not try to align themselves with wave. If they did then they would have been heated by the microwave. In fact, any molecular movement caused by the microwave could be considered heat and I'm sure that this movement is not limited to water.
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It would make water (H2O).
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It passes right through.   \n\nThe friction of the waves passing through is why food gets hot in the microwave.  Cell Phones and Wi-Fi do not have much power behind them is why don't cook but if you stand right in front of a microwave communication tower emitter you will be one roasted dude.  The guy that invented the microwave oven had discovered the application while working on radar arrays for the military and a candy bar in his shirt pocket had suddenly melted while he was standing near the emitter.\n\nThe dad of a friend of mine got mad one day and decided to throw a microwave into the street.  It smashed the door but still worked when we plugged it back in.  Even with the door open !  It felt pin-prickly and unpleasant if you put your hand in while it was running--  Don't try this at home !!
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well, how about a microwave's affect on a potato, compared to visible light, or radio length waves.\n\nwith enough energy, you could get some heat-up (absorption) at most any frequency but not the inside out efficient heating that you get with microwaves.
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Hmm, I'm sitting here thinking about how microwaves work (yes, I do know how). If the pills have moisture in them (which I'm sure they do), then the electons in the pills can get energized by the microwaves and change the substance of the pills completely. The heat from the outside of the microwave itself though can alter the chemicals in the pills. It might be unlikely that anything happened to yours, but I'd just be on the safe side about it.
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HowStuffWorks.com is a resourceful website for these type of questions.\n\nhttp://home.howstuffworks.com/microwave.htm
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Absolutely, yes.  PURIFIED water can become super-heated in the microwave -- that is, above boiling temperature but not actually boiling.  Tap water has minute particle in it that will facilitate the normal boiling process. Purified water does not, or it doesn't have enough.  When the surface is broken with a fork or spoon, for example, the built-up heat energy (that should have been causing the water to boil) will then pop causing the water to explode out of the container.