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The Weirdness of Water Part 2/2

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Is That a Micro Wave?

Water molecules like to line themselves with a magnetic field. So if you had, i don't know, some kind of high frequency omagnetic radiation that really quickly switch direction between positive and negative, those water molecules would always want to be facing the right direction. And so very quickly, you could make them spin. We call such contraptions micro waves. A mico wave is a very specific way of generating heat and water.

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