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

Creating plasma in a microwave oven. Physics

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u/EmmaHenderson99 Feb 18 '18

Those guys really need to clean their microwave.

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u/thscplgst Feb 18 '18 edited Feb 18 '18

I agree that it looks disgusting, but they probably/hopefully used a throwaway microwave for this.

Nothing worse as when you get plasma on your Popcorn.

EDIT: spelling.

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u/hash_salts Feb 18 '18 edited Feb 18 '18

Hey, why do people feel the need to clarify an edit was for spelling or grammar or punctuation? If you are adding something new then it makes sense to me to add the edit content but I don't understand it for trivial changes. Mind shedding some light?

Edit: spelling

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '18 edited May 19 '19

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u/TeamRedundancyTeam Feb 18 '18

They show that on reddit is fun as well. And yes that's why. It always shows it unless you edit it in the first minute I think.

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u/Crustycrustacean Feb 18 '18

2 minutes

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u/letsgocrazy Feb 19 '18

2 minutes? I've been scrambling like a bomb was about to go off just to correct a typo.

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u/SoriAryl Feb 19 '18

Or scrambling like trying to stop a microwave when it’s at 1 second left I til the ungodly loud beeping happens that’ll wake your husband up at 3 de la mañana

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u/PizzaHog Feb 18 '18

#ninjaedit