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What happens when you heat vodka in a microwave?
Since ethanol has a lower dielectric constant than water would the water heat up and boil before the ethanol? Would the water transfer heat to the ethanol and, since ethanol has a lower boiling point, ...
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What is the ion drag mechanism in dielectric heating?
While reading about dielectric heating on Wikipedia, I read about the ion drag mechanism but there wasn't enough information about.
I know there is another Phys.SE question talking about the ion drag ...
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Microwave oven + water: dielectric heating or ion drag?
When you place a water or food in a microwave oven, it heats.
Which process commits more energy to that: dielectric heating, or ion drag i.e. resistive heating?
AFAIK, in distilled water (which is a ...
