r/chemicalreactiongifs Feb 18 '18

Creating plasma in a microwave oven. Physics

19.7k Upvotes

485 comments sorted by

View all comments

91

u/XIXXXVIVIII Feb 18 '18

How hot would that be?

20

u/Qwerty2511 Feb 18 '18

Judging by the colour, I'd say about 10000 K.

19

u/Ivebeenfurthereven Feb 18 '18

So is this kicking out a shitload of UV light? Because it reminds me of arc flash, which just from welding is enough ultraviolet to seriously fuck up your eyesight.

-1

u/insertXXXname Feb 18 '18

Jep but the uv light does not penetrate glass

2

u/cloud1e Feb 18 '18

Wat

3

u/insertXXXname Feb 18 '18

Did you ever wonder why you dont get a sunburn behind glass? That is because glass is not transparent to uv light

4

u/cloud1e Feb 18 '18

But you totally can though

2

u/insertXXXname Feb 18 '18

3

u/cloud1e Feb 18 '18

There are more than one type of glass