In fairness to your point and for my own information I checked out some of the microwave disinfection info after my last post.



It is true they are using microwave disinfection to great effect and I'm glad to hear it. However it doesn't really apply to your home microwave. My points about how a microwave works and what it does are still valid. The difference with the biohazard sterilization with microwaves is they are infusing steam into the ground pulp to be disinfected and then microwaving the resultant mixture. This is simply making sure there is extremely effective heat dispersal from the agitated water molecules into the surrounding material and hence cooking the material to death/sterilization. On a somewhat related but off topic note the maximum effectiveness of heat for disinfection is also the reason that extreme firebomb clusters or nuclear explosions were for a long time, and still as far as I know, viewed as the only way to sanitize an area of certain resilient bio/chemical threats.



Either way, while microwave sterilization has progressed much farther then I had realized it has not changed in terms of your home microwave.

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