decaturtxcowboy wrote:
> miso@sushi.com wrote:
> > Isn't there some magic relationship between H2O and 2400Mhz? Like water
> > absorbs the 2.4G RF most efficiently, and thus microwave ovens use this
> > frequency.
> >
> > Wifi isn't all that far away in frequency.
>
> Actually that's urban myth. Microwave ovens use 2.4 GHz because its in the
> unlicensed ISM band.
>
> [snipped from http://www.answers.com/topic/microwave-1]
>
> Microwave heating is sometimes incorrectly explained as a rotational
> resonance of water molecules, but this is incorrect: such resonance only
> occurs at much higher frequencies, in the tens of gigahertz. Moreover,
> large industrial/commercial microwave ovens operating in the 900 MHz range
> also heat water and food perfectly well.
>
> Also,
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave
> http://www.zyra.org.uk/microw.htm

Well, that certainly clears up a lot of bull I've been told over the
years. Now if we can just get to the bottom of the Richard Gere gerbil
caper....