You’ve probably seen the videos of a grape — cut almost totally in half — in a microwave creates a plasma. A recent physics paper studies the phenomenon with a lot of high-tech gear and now the actual ...

If you were to drop a cut grape into the microwave and heat it, something incredible would happen: The little fruit would spit out tiny glowing jets that happen to be a weird state of matter called ...

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YouTube videos of grape halves sparking in a household microwave oven and igniting a plasma have amassed millions of views, but the physical mechanisms behind this phenomenon are in fact little ...

If you haven’t seen what happens to grapes in a microwave oven, you haven’t spent enough time in the richly nerdy corner of the internet that specializes in strange, everyday phenomena with ...

Grapes, the simple supermarket staple, have become an unexpected tool in advancing quantum technology. Researchers from ...

• Ever see those YouTube videos where a grape explodes in a microwave? Physicist Aaron Slepkov did. • His team set out to figure out the true reason for the plasma fire phenomenon by testing not only ...

A Trent University physicist demystifies the science behind a party trick of exploding grapes in a microwave and explains how it can pave way for nanophotonics. Aaron D. Slepkov, the study lead author ...

First of all, before I delve into making plasmas with grapes, I just want to start with defining a plasma. A plasma is an ionised gas, so a gas that has been heated up to high temperatures. So high in ...

(via Veritasium) A bisected grape in the microwave makes plasma. But how does it work? A grape is the right size and refractive index to trap microwaves inside it. When you place two (or two halves) ...

DIY science enthusiasts know that, if you put a halved grape into a microwave with just a bit of skin connecting the halves, it’ll produce sparks and a fiery plume of ionized gas known as a plasma.