If anyone tries this, I want pictures (micro-wave fueled science)
 

http://angel.elte.hu/~andras/lb.html


Who doesn't love floating multi-colored plasma balls?

edit: right, i forgot the warning (and it deserves to be reproduced):
Warning!

These experiments are dangerous. If you are not an expert of the field DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT TO REPEAT THESE EXPERIMENTS! It could demage your microwave oven, your kitchen and kill you!


but, if any of you ignore that, I still want pictures.

warning ignored....
 

i wonder what power setting they had it on....
just to be on the safe side, i'll do it in the microwave thats in the break-room at work

Here is a stupid question but....... what actually causes this to form. One would think that if it was the fire that caused this the microwave companies would all ready know about this.

I don't know . . . who has ever thought of microwaving a combustion reaction?

and RogerR: don't forget to bring your camera to work with you.

a friend of mine came up with this idea, but im no science guru so i dont know if it would work. it also has very little to do with plasma balls:

freeze many cans of shaving cream until you can take the cylinder of cream out easily and without hurting yourself. then place the cylinders in someone's car overnight. by the time they have melted the car will literally be filled with shaving cream, right?

hmmmmm.....

I'm not sure, but I will saythis: DEFINATLY WORTH A TRY!! (just avoid 1991 Sables, 'cause you might hit my car otherwise)

and, em, I don't know, but you might have to get that shaving cream really, really, really, really, really cold to make it freeze. I forgot if freezing goes up or down with pressure.

i THINK it goes down, 'cause the atoms would be pressed closer together at higher pressures, right?

lol trust me, it works... but do it in someone's car that you don't like

Ill keep that in mind.... senior prank, perhaps???

Quite a laugh
 

I will have to try this...although my parents freaked out enough when I was about eight and burned chocolate in the microwave, so I think I will just wait until I get my hands on an old microwave that is far, far, FAR away from my parents. Looks like an awesome thing to see and try though...

Re: Quite a laugh
 

I did the same thing in my microwave when I was eight too. My third grade teacher told us to make a food for class so I was going to make hot fudge... Well lets just say 30 minutes burns the chocolate/causes the chocolate to catch on fire and I was in the other room. Good thing my sister was home.

Still I would think that microwave manufactures would test for every possible situation one which would could be a fire in a microwave for some reason.