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What happens when you take something that's already on fire and THEN NUKE IT!?!?!??!?!? Watch to find out.

Anyone who took Chemistry class and witnessed the glowing hydrogen gas in a vacuum tube is familiar with this phenomena. When waves of electromagnetic energy strike an electron in a gas, they cause the electron to jump up to a higher molecular orbital than the one it was previously in. When the electron falls back down, it releases a photon of energy equal to the energy difference between the original energy level and the one it was ionized up to. What we are seeing is electrons in CO2 and CO gas (produced by the burning toothpick)jumping up to higher levels as they are struck by microwaves and falling back down, emitting electromagnetic waves that fall within the visible spectrum of light (hence, the glow). IT'S SCIENCE IN THE MICROWAVE!!! Somebody call Bill Nye.

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    is that plasma?

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    yea i saw a video of this before its pretty sweet but it makes a mildly toxic gas

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    Cool . We did this in science and this girl passed out because another boy told her we were going to die.

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    The glow is created by energy bombarding electrons in the ground state (sometimes referred to by those familiar with quantum mechanics as n=1) of an atom, raising them up to a higher energy level. When the electrons fall back down to n=1, a certian amount of electromagnetic radiation is released. Some of this radiation happens to be within the visible spectrum, producing the aforementioned glow.

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    After i watched teh video it gave me some really dumb F**k recommendations to watch XD!!!!

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    Nice to see that old trick. But ... as Richard Hammond always says: Dont try this at home kids! ;-)

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    everything turns to plasma -_-

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