can sound waves boil water?

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From: CHEW JOO SIANG
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:14

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I was thinking of this the other day - we all know that a microwave oven
works by resonating the water molecules at its natural frequency - this
causes a rise in its temperature. The question is, can we do the same
with sound waves - using it to resonate the water molecules. I know that
you need incredibly high frequecies to achieve it but is the concept
sound theoretically?

Kumaresan a/l Kanagasabai
eng10370@nusunix1.nus.sg

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