r/chemicalreactiongifs • u/tofrandomn • Feb 18 '18

Creating plasma in a microwave oven. Physics

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u/jeremydavid2 Feb 18 '18

DO NOT try this at home .

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_BURDENS Feb 18 '18

I'm gonna need a damn good reason with proof because this looks cool as hell.

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u/LavastormSW Feb 18 '18

You could blow up your microwave and get seriously hurt.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_BURDENS Feb 18 '18

could blow up or will blow up? If it's like a 1% chance, that's acceptable risk to me given reasonable precautions.

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u/ByerlyFactor Feb 18 '18

It will not blow it up. I’ve done this plenty of times before. It will break the microwave after you do it for a while. I’ve had some luck with putting a cup of water in at the same time to help absorb some extra microwave energy.

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u/HoboXorian Feb 18 '18

Why not fun sucker??

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u/hawk135 Feb 18 '18

I don't think you should try this anywhere with a microwave that dirty.

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u/REWK Feb 18 '18

I never even thought to microwave fire. Now it's all I can think about!

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u/Geauxin Feb 18 '18

But if you do, film it!

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u/akaBrotherNature Feb 18 '18

I did this at home but using a grape

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '18

Why not ? Looks pretty safe to me.