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How microwaves cook food

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Using microwave oven

How Do Microwaves Work?

microwave, kitchen

Why Do Some Foods Explode in the Microwave?

$Light refraction image with a cube. Prism$

How Is Light Both a Particle and a Wave?

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Franklin D. Roosevelt, who formulated the Four Freedoms.

7 Alphabet Soup Agencies that Stuck Around

Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.

Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

Panoramic view at sunrise of moai, Ahu Tongariki, Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile

6 Lost Civilizations

An ancient egyptian hieroglyphic painted carving showing the falcon headed god Horus seated on a throne and holding a golden fly whisk. Before him are the Pharoah Seti and the goddess Isis. Interior wall of the temple to Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.

11 Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

Calendar marking march 15th

22 Questions About Time and Timekeeping Answered

airplane in flight (plane, aircraft, flying)

7 Puzzling Plane Disappearances

The Colosseum, Rome, Italy. Giant amphitheatre built in Rome under the Flavian emperors. (ancient architecture; architectural ruins)

New Seven Wonders of the World

magnetron: Media

electronics

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How microwaves cook food

How microwaves cook food

Learn about the discovery of microwaves and their application.

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Typical elements of a magnetron.

Typical elements of a magnetron.

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