What Happens When you put a Thermometer in a Microwave

[whipped]

In honour of Flaky.

I was just looking at the thermometer in front of me and thinking, "how could I heat this up to a temperture so I could go home from work". Then I wondered what would happen if I used a microwave to occomplish this. Here are the results :-

Putting a mercury thermometer in a microwave oven isn't a good idea. While mercury is a metal and will reflect most of the microwaves that strike it, the microwaves will push a great many electric charges up and down the narrow column of mercury. This current flow will cause heating of the mercury because the column is too thin to tolerate the substantial current without becoming warm. The mercury can easily overheat, turn to gas, and explode the thermometer. (A reader of this web site reported having blown up a mercury thermometer just this way as a child.) Moreover, as charges slosh up and down the mercury column, they will periodically accumulate at the upper end. Since there is only a thin vapor of mercury gas above this upper surface, the accumulated charges will probably ionize this vapor and create a luminous mercury discharge. The thermometer would then turn into a mercury lamp, emitting ultraviolet light. I used microwave-powered mercury lamps similar to this in my thesis research fifteen years ago and they work very nicely.

In case you hadn't guessed, work is a little slow today.

 

[Clowneh!]

HEY GUYZ WHTAS BETT0R?!
PS2 OR N64 OR MEGAA CD MATES?! HAY?

 

[Perplex]

Originally posted by whipped
In honour of Flaky.

I was just looking at the thermometer in front of me and thinking, "how could I heat this up to a temperture so I could go home from work". Then I wondered what would happen if I used a microwave to occomplish this. Here are the results :-

Get a cup of tea or coffee, and dip it periodically in it till it reaches about 39c. Alternatively, if you have a desklamp, you can head it up on that

 

[~Lazarus~]

or.....

insert thermometer into a dogs "nether" regions for 10 mins.

allegedly dogs have a higher body temp than humans.

Just remember not to stick the thremometer back in yer gob afterwards uke:

yeah - works slow here too....

 

[PR.]

I'm not sure if Whipped has any dogs rectums at his disposal at work for such a trick.

And yes works quite here to, as it has been for the last 3 weeks

 

[Scouse]

I'm not sure if Whipped has any dogs rectums at his disposal at work for such a trick

Could try his missus....


















(Sorry Whipped - couldn't resist)