Superheating of water (Mythbusters)

This is what happens when you superheat water in a microwave demonstrated by the mythbusters

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• Superheat
• Superheating
• water
• mythbusters
• exploding

[gildedfryingpan]

@silentscratch In this case, they are not mythbusting. They know it's true, so they don't need to "confirm" it. The point it just to demonstrate it to people.

[kristina1097]

@13WhiteFang37 ur comment saved my ears. thank you

[databanks]

Oh, it was rainwater, so probably a little cleaner than the tap water of the time (was supposed to be the hardest tap water in the country at the time...)

[databanks]

Yup, had a cup of water superheat on me when I was a kid. New microwave - more powerful then the previous one but set the same time. Went to add sugar and the whole thing boiled out onto the bench. Glad it didn't splash me. After that I used the kettle

[ozoneocean]

Bubbles don't just form because of "impurities" in the water; tiny irregularities on the sides of a container are what causes most bubbles to form, the smoother the container the more chance of superheating.

[WindowsSoftwareDe]

anyone knows what the two top comments are talking about?... youtube #FAIL

[sysghost]

@13WhiteFang37 Did you say something?... I can't hear you!

[fall22123]

I just had this happen to me an hour ago. I was attempting to boil tap water in a clear glass coffee cup. I put it in for 4 mins...no boil, added a min...no boil. added another min...when it was almost done the water suddenly exploded with enough force to blow the door open and it smacked me in the head. No harm done just water everywhere. It forced me to wipe out the microwave, though, which needed to be done.

[gohjy271]

1:14 dam ! the fork is powerful !