2006-10-09 22:10:35 · 17 answers · asked by BUDDY 1 in Travel ➔ Africa & Middle East ➔ South Africa
I have never personally microwaved ants so I wouldn't know.That is fascinating though.
2006-10-09 22:21:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
microwave is a frequency of electromagnetic radiation which is just right to vibrate water molecules apart at the bond between oxygen and hydrogen. most food has water in it so it is useful for cooking. notice dry rice doesn't heat mcuh in a microwave oven, or dried pasta. if ants don't die in a microwave oven, either they don't have water molecules in critical cells or their exoskeleton alters the frequency. maybe the cells which have water have walls or some other mechanism to keep the water from breaking apart, or boiling. i haven't tried ants, but mosquitos die immediately. i don't like to torture ants, i think they're intelligent. but that might be an important thing to know about them, or from them.
2006-10-09 22:50:39 · answer #2 · answered by water boy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it has something to do with the way that a microwave oven works, and the fact that ants have an exoskeleton, and don't have internal fluids similar to blood in other animals...
:-)
2006-10-09 22:24:02 · answer #3 · answered by Extemporaneous 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's OK turning the microwave on BUT you also need to put the ants in it!
2006-10-12 02:31:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Conventional heating usually involves the use of a furnace or oil bath, which heats the walls of the reactor by convection or conduction. The core of the sample takes much longer to achieve the target temperature, e.g. when heating a large sample of ceramic bricks.
Microwave heating is able to heat the target compounds without heating the entire furnace or oil bath, which saves time and energy. It is also able to produce a generally uniform heating effect, although localized superheating do occur. Due to the nature of microwave radiation, selective heating can be achieved.
2006-10-09 22:15:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe because they live outside & you are simply using an electric appliance in your kitchen that isn't a nuclear weapon????
Are you trying to cook ants in your microwave??
Freak, I am not coming to your house for dinner & you are going to hell you torturer!
2006-10-09 22:13:38 · answer #6 · answered by Deanlad 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have never tried microwaved ants so I wouldn't kow
2006-10-09 22:12:49 · answer #7 · answered by London Girl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no idea.
next question. why would u want ants in your microwave?
hope you counted them in and out, else you might find they turn up in ur dinner!
MJ
2006-10-10 19:02:18 · answer #8 · answered by mj_junkie86 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard about an experience they made with Cockroaches. and somehow they managed to survive. They said they had so sensitive senses that they could always sense the spot with the lowest temperature. Never tried it and never will. It's disgusting.
2006-10-09 22:19:42 · answer #9 · answered by silverstarlightfairy99 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've never tried to fry one in my microwave!!
Your a bit weird boet!
2006-10-12 01:40:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋