RE: H2O Microwave Injury

[Glen.Vickers@ucm.com]

Our facility just recently had an identical event were someone was burned by
hot water.  Some of the water appeared to flash to steam/boil when the water
was agitated during removal from the microwave.  Sounds like good old
thermodynamics...

Glen
glen.vickers@ucm.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Franz Schoenhofer [SMTP:schoenho@via.at]
> Sent:	Monday, January 24, 2000 5:13 PM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	Re: H2O Microwave Criticality
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> Franz Schoenhofer
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> Austria
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