Re: H2O Microwave Criticality

[Franz Schoenhofer <schoenho@via.at>]

At 15:21 24.01.2000 -0600, you wrote:
>I came across the following and had to post it here for everyone to enjoy:

I do not enjoy it, since a person was hurt severely.


 It is however a much safer choice to boil the water in a
>tea kettle.  

Since I am an old fashioned European I always do so. 


 When I took organic chemistry,
>we'd put "boiling stones" (small, rough piece of calcium carbonate) in
>the bottoms of beakers.  This gave "nucleation points" for bubbles to form
>and kept the liquid from overheating (heating a few degrees above the
>boiling point) and "bumping." 

During my classes this was a must - we did not want to have everything
boiling over to the recipient and to start the distillation again.

>(HOW MUCH OF THIS IS TRUE??)
>
I believe it word by word.


Franz


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