I'm sorry the title is so gruesome, but I have a question, I have heard in urban legends, people talking about news and things like that, that when a person puts a dog, cat, or baby ((O_O something I would never do!)) in a microwave, the subject explodes after a while, our friends were discussing this when we heard a man killed a baby by putting it 40 seconds in the microwave, and a dog exploded after 4 min.
I have heard about these stories, but never seen it happen, when my tea cup goes in the microwave with some stranded little ant, even though I put it 1:50 seconds, nothing happens to the ant, when I put a chicken in the microwave, lets say im cooking a whole chicken for 10:00 min. or more, it doesn't explode, so why would a cat, dog, or any other animal that fits in it explode?
2007-12-11 14:29:38 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Microwaves in short heat objects from the inside out. If you microwave a cat, it is the equivalent of burning it from the inside (try not to picture it).
Basically, the center of the "object" gets heated first, and the pressure from the increasing heat in the center may not be able to escape fast enough, causing the object to explode.
2007-12-11 14:37:42 · answer #1 · answered by Ross C 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
A household microwave does not generate sufficient power to make something explode. Somethings might like if you left something that is in a sealed container and cooked it long enough for sufficient pressure to build up and you blow the top off of it. you leave it in there for a very long time, you would most likely kill a live animal( or baby) by microwaving it though, essentially cooking it from the inside out.
Wanna see something cool in a microwave though, nuke an old CD for about 15 seconds
2007-12-11 14:41:01 · answer #2 · answered by z_knell 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a myth! My mother told me that my babysitters child put his cat in the microwave and it died from the heat and radiation i think
2007-12-11 14:33:22 · answer #3 · answered by Angela 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I do believe that you just gave many sick-minded people on the internet some ideas of what they're going to do in their free time...
2007-12-11 14:34:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
its just an urban myth that doesnt really happen microwaves dont work that way
2007-12-11 14:33:06 · answer #5 · answered by helenanlov3 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i think they would die from being exposed to microwave radiation
2016-07-25 18:57:23 · answer #6 · answered by Sportaman 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know. This is one of those questions I would like to know, but could never bring myself to do the experiment.
2007-12-11 14:33:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No offence or anything, but why would you want to know.
2007-12-11 14:33:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋