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Microwave Radiation and a ``Burning Glass'' Igniting Steel Wool

photo The radiation from the horn antenna is focused by the lens on a ball of steel wool. The energy absorbed by the steel wool raises its temperature to the ignition temperature of steel wool.

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Malcom W. P. Strandberg
2001-04-30