Microwaving grapes produces a bright flash that looks like lightning. What you’re actually seeing is plasma. This video ...

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• Ever see those YouTube videos where a grape explodes in a microwave? Physicist Aaron Slepkov did. • His team set out to figure out the true reason for the plasma fire phenomenon by testing not only ...

There are thousands of YouTube videos in which DIY science enthusiasts cut grapes in half—leaving just a thin bit of skin connecting them—and put the grapes in the microwave, just to marvel at the ...

First of all, before I delve into making plasmas with grapes, I just want to start with defining a plasma. A plasma is an ionised gas, so a gas that has been heated up to high temperatures. So high in ...

Video of plasma created by irradiation in a commercial microwave oven of whole (uncut) grapes forming a dimer on a watch glass. Credit: Hamza K. Khattak, Pablo Bianucci, and Aaron D. Slepkov, via PNAS ...

The physics of light scattering off spheres helps explain why a grape heated in a microwave oven can generate a brilliant, highly charged gas. In dozens of YouTube videos of microwaved grapes, a ...

Microwaves are pretty convenient in heating or cooking food, erasing notebooks, and some other odd uses but there are things you shouldn't put inside the device. Metal immediately comes to mind but, ...

• Ever see those YouTube videos where a grape explodes in a microwave? Physicist Aaron Slepkov did. • His team set out to figure out the true reason for the plasma fire phenomenon by testing not only ...

The researchers found that an electromagnetic "hotspot" is responsible for producing the burst of plasma Hamza K. Khattak/Trent University In 1995, Aaron Slepkov chanced upon a website describing the ...

A man heating up leftovers in a microwave - TeodorLazarev/Shutterstock Although grapes aren't exactly in demand to be served hot, I would highly recommend that you do ...