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- From: phudl@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr S J Liddicott)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp48
- Subject: Re: Micro waves and fat and water
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 20:53:56 -0000
- Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
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- References: <1993Jan23.030545.24088@netcom.com> <1993Jan23.181227.19615@ugle.unit.no> <1993Jan25.170009.6693@netcom.com>
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- In article <1993Jan25.170009.6693@netcom.com> payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan23.181227.19615@ugle.unit.no> eyvind@Lise.Unit.NO (Eyvind Bernhardsen) writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan23.030545.24088@netcom.com>, payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
- >> > In article <1993Jan19.164320.14325@doug.cae.wisc.edu> kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad) writes:
- >> > >use a different frequency than radar dishes, though you're quite right that
- >> > >both are technically microwaves. (Microwave ovens are tuned to create the
- >> > >greatest loss tangent in water.)
- >> > Really, then why do fats heat so much faster?
- >>Specific heat capacity? More energy required per unit mass to heat by one
- >>degree (pick your unit)? Think about it... :)
- >No need to think about it. The claim was made that microwaves are tuned to heat
- >-water-. This is not true. This was the point which I was attempting to address,
- >unsuccessfully it would seem.
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- I think they are tuned to get the greatest heat transfer to water.
- *Not* so that water will be heated better than anything else.
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- The fact that the same frequency also heats fats well is by the by;
- no doubt a frequency could be picked which wouldn't heat fats much, but
- than as far as the water goes, it wouldn't be the best.
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