Microwave fruit photonics and the shape of water
DEC 14, 2021
The sparking of grapes in a household microwave oven has been a popular online parlour trick for decades. Traditional explanations presume that the objects act as conductive short antennas. However, attending to the bulk of these objects as aqueous dielectric spheres with an index of refraction of order 9 (at 2.5 GHz) provides new and exciting…Watch the video to learn more! Originally aired December 2021.
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