Are microwaves dangerous. If so, how?
Is it the light that can cause cancer or somthing? Or anything other dangers?
Also do they have any medical uses?
2007-09-16 09:44:11 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
A microwave uses waves to heat food. The wave travels through the food causing the molecules to move up against eachother causing friction, which makes heat. Imagine a microwave running through your body make your cells rub up against eachother. That can't be good for the body.
2007-09-16 09:49:45 · answer #1 · answered by MISSY E 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, I know that microwaves can leak toxic radiation if the seals on the door are defective. You can tell if it is leaking if you close the door while the microwave is on and get a radiation detector to check to see if anything is leaking. I also have heard that anyone with pacemakers must stay like 5 to 8ft away from the microwave because it will affect a pacemaker. Radiation is used to help cure cancer, even though it can also cause caner. It is the premise of homeopathic therapy to cure something with a similar.
Does this help?
2007-09-16 09:53:33 · answer #2 · answered by Sweet Victory 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Microwaves are heat rays. If you get your eye in the path of a microwave beam it cooks your eye. It goes cloudy and you can't see. It will cause burns if it reaches other parts of your body. The most dangerous thing inside a microwave oven is actually the power supply. 2000V DC at low impedance is very dangerous.
Low level microwave radiation is not very harmful which is lucky, because mobile phones use it.
2007-09-16 09:47:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Microwaves are extremely energetic photons. Witness what happens in a microwave oven.
During the early days of radar, bored technicians ignited steel wool by throwing it into the beam of a radar transmitter.
They can cause blindness and in higher powers they do cause death. medicinally they are used under controlled conditions to heat muscle tissue.
2007-09-16 09:51:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the microwaves in microwave ovens are tuned to the frequency of the water molecule. Hence the water in anything will resonate and heat up; that's how the oven works. Ifthe microwaves fall on us, we will heat up. If they get into somewhere delicate eg the eye, then the heat can destroy the retina.... and so on.
2007-09-20 09:49:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
High power microwaves fry tissue just like the box in your kitchen that uses them. Diathermy machines use radio frequencies in the short wave band for medical purposes.
2007-09-16 09:50:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Microwaves are shorter than radio waves, they heat water by exciting the water molecules, your body is mostly water, you could quickly die if you are exposed to a strong source of microwaves.
2007-09-20 09:50:38 · answer #7 · answered by johnandeileen2000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. Microwaves can have wavelengths that are similar to human components. As such they can cause heating of, say, the muscles in your arm or a section of liver. I do not know if they can cause cell damage or not.
2007-09-16 09:49:33 · answer #8 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well it can cook you because we are mostly water. in an actual microwave it can separate chemicals in some cheap plastics and put that in your food. my guess
2007-09-16 09:52:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the microwave is dangerous because of the microwave radiation it emits.
2007-09-16 09:48:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋