To: ThePythonicCow
“The microwave oven converts electricity to heat”
Not exactly. The microwaves excite their target (THE FOOD) which in turn generates heat as the food molecules go into orgasm.
The microwaves themselves are not radiating heat.
19 posted on
06/04/2007 1:02:03 PM PDT by
AlexW
(Reporting from Bratislava, Slovakia)
To: AlexW
Well, yeah, -both- of these are two stage conversions.
- electricity -> excited molecules -> heat
- heat -> vibrating atoms -> electricity
My point was that these are roughly inverse processes, not similar processes as the earlier post speculated.
29 posted on
06/04/2007 1:19:09 PM PDT by
ThePythonicCow
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