Superheating water to make it explode

PURE water will explode if you Superheat it in a Microwave and impurities it in. Bringing it back suddenly to it's boiling point, the water becomes volatile and can erupt from it's container. Superheated water doesn't boil at the normal 100 degrees Celcius!!

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[jonnyscinema]

I cleaned it as good as I could only most marks are scorch marks for microwaving things that burn and bang.

[Icedor]

You seriously need to clean your microwave. Filth.

[madmally]

clean your microwave

[pcorf]

If you boil water in the microwave for several minutes all the impurities are removed and it superheats, then bubbles then superheats again and so on.

[yourtuber8541]

What i learned. Put a lid on my chilli before i microwave. YUUUUCK!

[filippo333]

@Hoopermazing That too, but some water processing plants do it with filters because its quicker.

[Hoopermazing]

@filippo333 I'm talking about tap water filtered through a Brita water filter, not distilled water. Distilled water, as I understand the term, is water that is boiled and then allowed to condense, thus removing its mineral content.

[filippo333]

@Hoopermazing Pure water is filtered water, it depends on how good the filters are which makes the water distilled.

[Hoopermazing]

...and it wasn't "pure water" either. It was filtered tap water.

[Hoopermazing]

This happened to me twice (heating water in a french press beaker) before I wised up and bought an electric kettle.

[neogam209]

looks like fun