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- From: crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass)
- Subject: Re: The dangers in microwaved food...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.022134.29183@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Virginia
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- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 02:21:34 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug25.224720.24397@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> bhv@areaplg2.corp.mot.com (Bronis Vidugiris) writes:
- >In article <25737@dog.ee.lbl.gov> sichase@csa3.lbl.gov writes:
- >)In article <1992Aug25.165415.21655@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>, bhv@areaplg2.corp.mot.com (Bronis Vidugiris) writes...
- >)>
- >)>As far as I know there is no evidence that microwave radiation has any
- >)>effect on the body other than heating - if it is continuous. There was
- >)
- >)The experts seem to be concerned about nerve damage. If you are near
- >)a microwave oven with a leaky shield, then before you heat sensors
- >)detect a problem it is possible that internal damage can be done to your
- >)extremities.
- >
- >I don't recall anything like that. I recall now that there was a problem
- >with cataracts at *really* high levels, but I believe that was still believed
- >to be due to the heating effects.
-
- I do not know of any such effect either, except for the fact that
- arms and legs and eyeballs have marvelous dimensions for developing hot
- spots under 2.45 GHz irradiation (especially eyeballs). Babies
- heads have this same property, though most adults have heads
- that are too large to build up any substantial hot spots except
- in their eyes (c.f. Taflove and Brodwin, IEEE Microwave Theory and
- Techniques MTT-23:888 (1975)).
-
- Of course, the input power would have to be substantial in order to have
- any significant heat generation.
-
- Just another reason to keep kids and hammers away from your microwave...
-
- dale bass
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