Re: Microwaves NOT in a microwave oven?

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From: john_palkovic
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1992 07:44

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>I thought you knew better than this.  Microwave ovens do NOT
>operate on any resonant frequency of water.

Maybe, maybe not.

I recall an "Amateur Scientist" article by Jearl Walker in Sci. Am.
where he was claiming most of the absorption by water in a
microwave oven was due to a resonant mode which involved three H20
molecules coupled together. Sorry, I don't have the ref.

Adios,

-John
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