Question

what does the word micro signify in the words microwave oven

Answer 1

Explanation:

What does the prefix “micro-“ signify in the words “microwave oven”? It has been proposed that food that has been irradiated by gamma rays to lengthen its shelf life be marked “picowaved.

Answer 2

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=》The ‘micro-“ used in the microwave signifies the microwave radiation that has been used to irradiate the food kept inside it. Microwave radiation is an electromagnetic wave whose wavelength is in the range of 1 mm to 1 m.

Gamma rays are electromagnetic radiation whose wavelength is less than 10-12 m. This shows that its wavelength is in the range of pico.

Thus, the oven that used gamma rays to irradiate food that has been kept inside is named picowaved. This means it used a radiation of wavelength in the order of pico

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