They aren’t EM radiation. Not all radiation is electromagnetic.
Right, that’s my point. Cosmic rays are made up of neutrons alpha and beta particles (right?) so they can’t be part of the EM spectrum.
Personally I wouldn’t, it might cause a short circuit.
Just to clear the matter. I am a girl.. and i live with some very ‘interesting’ friends.
I have put my bras in the microwave, when I was breastfeeding and suffering from thrush.
“Remember how Mom used to microwave our underwear on cold days?”
-Bart Simpson
I vaguely recall being told that you should microwave your undies when you have a yeast infection. The idea being that whatever yeast – um, spores? – beasties manage to stay clinging to the fabric through the laundry will get fried by the microwaves.
Have no idea if this is true, it might well be an UL.
Probably safer to boil them, in that case. The yeastie beasties are too small to be affected by the microwaves directly, and so would only be killed by the ambient heat, but uneven heating could easily leave cool spots sufficient for them to hide in.
However, the OP could just as well expose his underpants to X-rays and then wear them with no ill effects.
Used a hotel microwave to dry my underpants once. Burned them. Smoke alarm tripped.
Man…that was a rough business trip.
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PSXer?
I wish to know more about this donut molecule. I always thought Febreeze was kind of sinister.
Originally, the difference between gamma and x-rays was what source they came from. However, it’s often more useful to distinguish rays by frequency/wavelength than by source (especially in astronomy, where you often didn’t exactly what the source was), so it became common to use gamma ray for harder radiation and x-ray for somewhat softer radiation. However, there’s no agreed upon boundary between the two, so there’s lots of overlap where both terms may be used for the same radiation.
Nor have I. There’s a few terms for that section of the spectrum. Terahertz radiation and T-rays are a couple of them. Astronomers call it submillimeter radiation. There is currently a certain amount of research into practical uses of this region, so perhaps that was what was meant.
I’ve learned a lot in this thread. Soooo… microwaves are perfectly safe for underwear, but ionizing radiation is potentially dangerous.
What if I hit my boxers with some gamma rays?
That was not a flashlight; I was just happy to see you.
Wow, really? So obviously bacteria would be too, right?
I always thought that microwaving would kill stuff like that. I guess I’m lucky to be alive.
How much radiation does your underwear already give off?
It depends on the length of the radiator.
And its temperature.
Wait, you just said yeast was too small to be affected, and now you say a triatomic molecule is big enough? Please clarify.
No, he said yeast is too small to be reliably targeted – obviously if a yeast cell actually catches a photon, it will absorb its energy, but if you’re trying to kill all of the yeast cells, they all need to get hit. This is different from just heating an inert mass, where it doesn’t matter which molecules catch the photons, as the heat energy can (and will) be redistributed amongst all the molecules.
OK, this thread has appeared in Threadspotting, with the tag line “Buttwarmers! (Do not try this at home)”; are TPTB suggesting that one should do this at work??
Your genitals will get big and green whenever you get mad.