> be forewarned that in older ovens without carousels, water in
> a container sitting very still can become superheated in a
> microwave oven.  Upon disruption by some object (thermometer
> in this case) the superheated (above boiling point but not
> boiling) water can and will explode out of the container as it all
> instantaneously boils over, flashing to steam and covering the
> unsuspecting "scientist" with boiling water

Located my video of this today (it's tiny - 65kB)

http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/joecolquitt/hotstuff.html

(I noticed the date I made this was 13/4/01 - getting old too quick)

The man with the beaker said it felt "not uncomfortably hot". Then
he dropped the coffee in - and whoosh

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