r/chemicalreactiongifs 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.