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Watch a Microwave Nuke a Windows 7 DVD in Glorious Slow Motion

Melt your CD, melt your mind.

"Are u too good to write about a CD being microwaved in slow motion," Motherboard editor Emanuel Maiberg asked me today.

No comrades. I am not. None of us are. For this is not your Basic Edition of CD being microwaved video. This is a CD Being Microwaved In Slow Motion Filmed From Inside The Microwave video. And it is beautiful.

'Slow mo CD in a microwave - Filmed from the inside #2' , brought to us by YouTube science star Steve Mould, hits us with a one-two punch of awe and science.

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Behold as concentric rings materialize alongside the sound of gunfire on the CD, followed mysterious radial chasms crackling into existence.

It's not just a blank CD that's blasted with microwaves though. Mould also experiments with a CD that contains data, a blank DVD, a DVD that's a Windows 7 installation disc, and a regular CD like the kind you'd buy from Hot Topic in the days of yore.

"A CD is a thin layer of metal sandwiched between two layers of plastic. And metal is a conductor," explains Mould. "Microwaves are part of the electromagnetic spectrum, meaning that they push and pull on charged particles like electrons. So when you put a CD in a microwave oven, the microwaves push and pull on the electrons in there causing a current to flow."

But alas, metal isn't a perfect conductor, and the small resistance it does have causes the flowing electrons to bump into the atoms of the metal, transferring some of their kinetic energy into heat, thus forming the cracks.

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