Sentences with dielectric heating
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D d - A cellphone cannot cook anything; even a hundred cellphones put together could not cause the dielectric heating effect that you witness in a microwave.Dielectric heating is most widely observable in the microwave oven where it operates most efficiently on liquid water, and much less so on fats, sugars, and frozen water.Dielectric heating is a form of heating in which electrically insulating material is heated by being subjected to an alternating electric field.
- Compare dielectric heating with induction heating, which is the heating of a conducting material as a result of the electric currents induced in it by an externally applied alternating magnetic field.