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 ...

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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 ...

Here’s a recipe for homemade plasma: Cut a grape in half, leaving the two sections connected at one end by the grape’s thin skin. Heat the fruit in a microwave for a few seconds. Then, boom: From the ...

Grapes, the simple supermarket staple, have become an unexpected tool in advancing quantum technology. Researchers from Macquarie University have demonstrated that pairing grapes in a microwave oven ...

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) close together the ...

• 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 ...

An internet parlour trick involves slicing a grape almost in half and throwing it in a microwave, igniting a plasma to create a fiery show. Plasmas are formed when a gas is heated and ionised, ...

(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) ...