From another thread who is doing the experiment again in a more controlled enviornment. The difference was none so far. BUT This has not been done in a labratory controlled enviornment.
Your statement in the second paragraph about changing food at the molecular level is wrong. Microwaves don't have the energy to do such a thing. When looking at the electromagnetic spectrum, microwaves are similar in energy to radio waves. Because they don't have enough energy to ionize (molecularly change matter) the water, pizza, etc., all they can do is cause the molecules of water and fat to vibrate. When things vibrate, they create friction which creates heat. Nothing in the food changes. It's the same thing when you heat a pot of water. All you're doing differently is transferring the heat from a source (flame or electric - which by the way is using visible/infrared electromagnetic radiation to heat your water which is higher in energy than microwaves), having a metal container conduct the heat to the water, and then having it warm the molecules until they vibrate and create enough friction to make enough heat in order to boil.
And with her experiment, there's too many unknowns. Did both plants get the same amount of sunlight? Are both soils the same? Another thing is that she trimmed them off of another plant. Well maybe one of the clippings didn't take while the other one did. It would have been a better experiment had she just taken two plants of similar size that were potted in the same container and same soil. This may seem like I raggin' on her, but it's not. This is a very bright girl to try an experiment like this at such a young age. It's just that you have to establish constants for everything so that the only variable in the experiment is which water each plant is getting. Then you can definitely say, that yes the microwaved water kills the plants.
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