TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Re: Do Allow Under-9s to Use a Mobile

Re: Do Allow Under-9s to Use a Mobile

AES (siegman@stanford.edu)
Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:15:32 -0800

In article <telecom24.41.13@telecom-digest.org>, TELECOM Digest Editor
noted in response to Linc Madison <lincmad@suespammers.org>:

> And why is it that microwave ovens have very well-shielded doors on
> them and the oven will not work if the door is open.

Primarily because the much higher power levels of microwave radiation
(hundreds of watts up to kilowatts) associated with microwave ovens
can, in cases of serious leakage, cause what is in essence a "cooking"
effect in the proteins in the front (lens part) of your eyeball,
leading after prolonged cumulative exposure to cataract formation.

(And it is a _door_ which gets opened and closed a lot, cleaned,
spattered with food, bumped, etc, so that there's more than usual
chance of damage to the seals over time.)

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