I boiled water for tea,and watched two ants running around in it for 4 min. when i opened the door they came out and whent on there why!
2007-01-21 06:28:56 · 5 answers · asked by stoner745 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
A microwave works by heating contents from the inside out - it fires a concentrated microwave beam into the center of the heating platter, and the microwaves excite the atoms throughout the target. If you put something tiny in any corner of the microwave, it won't get hot (except from the heat radiated by whatever is being warmed by the microwaves). As long as the ants don't venture into the path of the beam, and the microwave doesn't run long enough so that what you are heating up gives off so much heat that the entire inside of the chamber is very hot, they will be fine. If they do get into the path of the beam, they will fry from the inside out.
Ants' biology will help them survive for a longer period of time than, say, a cat, in radioactive environments. However, they are not "immune" to radiation and will eventually succumb. It would just take a bit longer than some other creatures.
2007-01-21 06:38:05 · answer #1 · answered by Rex M 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you attempting to wipe the ants off the planet? I propose, stepping on them is one element, yet microwaving them... they'd no longer die because, i'm assuming that severe warmth isn't what motives it to die. Ants likely have particular chemical compounds of their body that repel warmth OR the nice and cozy temperature in a microwave probably does no longer attain the ant as a results of the undeniable fact that is soooo tiny.
2016-10-15 21:42:06 · answer #2 · answered by moncrieffe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why do you have ants in your microwave? but besides the fact, ants are somehow immune to microwave radiation. normally microwave pulses would cause catastrophic bodily system failure. the radiation causes living tissue to shut down. if you want a history of microwave rays look up how the Japanese built a microwave gun during WW2. they tested it on living animals only to find out that it liquifies their internal body organs.
2007-01-21 06:42:34 · answer #3 · answered by somebodys_here 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am amazed at your story, but more horrified that at the state of your microwave. You could die from germs.
The answer seems inexplicable, as they should have been irradiated, surely.
I wouldn't experiment with it however - the poor ants. Having to live in your filthy microwave is bad enough.
2007-01-21 06:34:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Could be they could see the microwaves and were running around to avoid them.
2007-01-21 06:34:50 · answer #5 · answered by MT C 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋