Why do microwave ovens sometimes overheat water?
When heating water in a microwave, avoid overlong heating and be careful when adding anything to it. | Photo Credit: Dewang Gupta/Unsplash A: Water has a property called surface tension: its surface behaves like a stretched skin that tries to shrink. When a vapour bubble forms inside hot water, surface tension tends to squeeze it….
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