Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Water boiled in a microwave can suddenly "explode"

It sounds like an urban legend, but this can actually happen! (Snopes notes that it's very rare -- still interesting to read about, though.)

2 comments:

  1. Mythbusters showed that overheating Distilled Water was the most dangerous because it does not boil because it has no stuff in it like regular water.

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  2. When I dip a teabag in microwaved water I always do so very quickly and lightly at first, and that starts it boiling again. If I just let the teabag lay in there, it'd boil over at once.

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