11 Comments

Plasma from a burning toothpick?

January 4, 2007 by in AV,Cool with 11 Comments

See it for yourself. And definitely try not to experiment with something like this in your own home microwave. We wouldn’t want to read the odd news the next day to find a snippet about a home experiment involving a toothpick, flame, and microwave gone wrong. Scientifically speaking, no one seems to know exactly what’s going on.


  • Cynic821

    arent microwaves the greatest. Never has it failed to put something that you normally would not put in a microwave and something cool didnt happen!

  • http://www.matkins70.com Mikey

    Soap is fun. A Classic. Expands massively.

    When i was younger, my best friends old brother used to entertain us by putting cds in the microwave.

  • http://wilcosworld.co.uk/ Adam

    Ah! Brainiac, Sky One… back when Richard Hammond presented it. I agree with the guy above, is there nothing you cant microwave in a cool way?

  • ClaMs

    …..must…..put……match……in……..microwave…..
    …..must…..try……this……myslef…..

  • Mike D

    yeah I’ll definately be trying this myself

  • London_Nik

    As wood burns, it lets off carbon dioxide gas, carbon (as soot) and water vapour. It’s the water vapour that get’s nuclear magnetically excited (by the magnetron inside the microwave) and rapidly expands.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven

  • http://www.netview.ro alex

    Im so tempted to doing this. I wonder what could go wrong ?!?!

  • 5tifler

    Brain Tumor?

  • Cynic821

    your kids might have gills?

  • Alf

    HEHEHE… you think this is cool… try putting a lighbulb in the nuker…. heheh…

    *Alf is not liable for any and all damage that results from trying this including and not limited to burning down your apartment, having your eye taken out by flying shards of grass, or the contraction of genital herpes.*

  • Alf

    *glass*

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