Now if you put the RF stuff inside a metal box and close the door
> before you turn it on, there's no problem at all. You do this every
> time you warm up your coffee in the microwave oven. It's perfectly > safe. >
> So what's your problem?
The problem is that the amount of power in a microwave oven is relatively small and is carefully generated back inside and carried by a wave guide to spread out all over the inside and the box is carefully designed not to let the stuff out. Even then a small flaw in a microwave door interlock can produce local heating that will cook an area of flesh on the hand. Doing high heating with RF involves building a complicated cylindrical "antenna"/radiator and pumping a lot of wattage into a small area. Meanwhile, on the backside of the antenna, wattages a lot higher than in a microwave are being thrown out. Comparing it to broadcast radio power is absurd, since the radio has to be carefully designed to pick up milliwatts of signal and cooking is done with levels of watts per sq.cm
>
> > You're talking about "RF Induction Heating".
> >
> > RF is VERY DANGEROUS. You don't have to touch it, It will reach out and go
> > after you.
>
> It already has, if you hadn't noticed. It's literally all around you.
> If you don't believe it, then take a portable radio and turn it on.
> See? That proves that it's all around you.
>
> Now if you put the RF stuff inside a metal box and close the door
> before you turn it on, there's no problem at all. You do this every
> time you warm up your coffee in the microwave oven. It's perfectly > safe. >
> So what's your problem?
>
> > Jay
> >
> > > I did some googling, and found remarkably little, and the one hit on
> > > google-groups doesn't quite seem relevant.
> > >
> > > In brief, these are things in which you pile a heap of powder, run cooling
> > > water through the coils surrounding it, then turn on a large amount of RF.
> > > Handy for heating things to insanely high temperatures without needing
> > > a crucible that can withstand the temperatures.
> > >
> > > Can anyone point me at any helpfull books?
> > >
> > > I became interested after finding a brief description of the process of > > making
> > > Cubic Zirconia, and it seems like a fun project.
> > >
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