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[–] silverlose@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well this comment sent me on a bit of a deep dive. My statistical thermodynamics prof told us that microwaves only affect waters dipole, but it seems like they affect all polar molecules, like you say. Maybe it’s a semantics/language thing because I can imagine we could pick the microwave size to match its dipole. It’s been too long. I’d need to crack open some scary textbooks again. Hmm

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ah... my physics course was very short, and tried to cover a bit of everything, because I did Computer Science. So I really don't know the details. I just assumed it would apply to any polar molecule to some degree and looked up random ones for that joke.

I do know that Microwaves use a frequency around 2.4 GHz - 2.5 GHz, they can disturb Wifi if they leak. But I assume that is just because the unlicensed ISM band is there, and hasn't got anything to do with water specifically.