CD in Microwave

[Stringent]

What would happen if you stuck a CD in the microwave and let it cook for a few mins?

[plaz]

Dunno test it and let us know how you get on? Don't forget the pics

[Agent]

You get a lot of sparks

[garath]

definately arcing of lightning from the cd to the walls

[Doctor.Bob]

Originally posted by Flanderz
What would happen if you stuck a CD in the microwave and let it cook for a few mins?

why do you ask?

(& as a follow up question to the posts above - Does that harm the microwave? & Will the CD get warm?)

[Bunjiweb]

it's very dangerous and i wouldn't reccomend it...

CDs have an alu surface that would combust when the microwave is turned on....

Whatever you've seen on Clarkson's TV show, don't even bother trying... if the microwave blew up you'd get buggared by a lot of radiation...

Ben

[Doctor.Bob]

So the CD would get hot?

A plate on it's own doesn't get hot - it's conducted heat from the plate that makes it hot when you take it out.

iirc that is because a ceramic plate has no water molecules for the microwaves to add energy to.

Does the plastic in a cd get hot?

[acidrainy]

Originally posted by Bunjiweb
Whatever you've seen on Clarkson's TV show, don't even bother trying...

Awww!! I wanted to try the potato rocket launcher some day

[Ozymandias]

Originally posted by Flanderz
What would happen if you stuck a CD in the microwave and let it cook for a few mins?

In a moment of madness I gave this a go some time ago. As I recall there were a lot of sparks, arcing within the CD and the writing surface of CD was wrecked (no surprise there). The CD remained intact and didn't melt possibly due to me microwaving it for 5-10 secs only.

[Raz316]

awwww :/

this is like being told not to play with matches because they are dangerous..
Myself and everyone else at work are lucky we have no microwave

[garath]

i dont think itd blow up, just 'lightning' will fly frm the cd to the walls of the microwave blowing craters in the wall, after that, no idea what happens though

[Ozymandias]

I don't recall any cd to wall 'lightning' just internal to the cd stuff.

[amoeba]

I think you get little electric pops, the cd plastic would probably start to melt, and it would stink.

Microwaves only give out microwaves - so even if it blew up your not in danger from radiation (you'd just get a bit hot, and anything metallic on you would heat up if exposed).

There have been trials experimenting with microwave House Heating. Unfortunately its not doable because anything metallic gets very hot.

[Gubs]

http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/cdzap.html has some piccies of what happens to a microwaved CD when you put it on a tesla coil (not something to try at home methinks)

[Stringent]

That was pretty cool!

[Doctor.Bob]

Ali G - 'me mate Dave once put a mouse in a microwave to see if it could survive the nuclear thing'


Another one to try at home.