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Okay, here's the segment of the Tourbus newsletter I got a few weeks ago,
explaining how the exploding microwaved water phenomenon is extremely
rare...
June
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URBAN LEGEND #2: water heated in a microwave oven could possibly
'explode' into a steam bubble, causing a scald burn.
Ding-ding-ding. We have a winner! It turns out that this urban
legend is true ... sort of. It is theoretically possible that water
heated in a microwave oven could reach temperatures above 100 C
without turning into steam. When something is added to this
superheated water (a tea bag, a spoon, or whatever), the water would
rapidly change states from water to steam.
Fortunately, this is pretty rare. So rare, in fact, that you need not
warn your friends about it. According to our friend David Emery,
A search of the medical literature on microwave injuries ...
[shows] references to trauma caused by everything from overheated
pizza to exploding eggs, but no mentions I could find of serious
injury due to surges or explosions of boiling water.
Anyway, if you want to learn more about turbulence and nucleation in
superheated liquids (whee!), take a look at either
<A HREF="http://www.snopes.com/spoons/faxlore/microwav.htm">
http://www.snopes.com/spoons/faxlore/microwav.htm </A>
or
<A HREF="http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/mcurrent.htm">
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/mcurrent.htm </A>.
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