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One of the many idiots I have worked with over the years was on chick tha refused to use a microwave oven to heat anything. She had heard someone use the phrase "nuke the food" and she was convinced her food would be radioactive. I tried to convince her that yes, it is electromagnetic radiation, but they is nothing AT ALL like nuclear radiation. She was not convinced, and I did not care anymore.
I did not know you knew my sister. Yes, my parents bought her a very expensive microwave oven about 1978. She gave it away because someone told her it made the food radioactive.
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