On Saturday, October 25, 2014 5:42:47 PM UTC-4, wrote:

You have no idea what you are talking about.

I have a much better idea than you do.

To *be cooking yourself , there must be an increase in temperature.

Ed himself posted earlier that: "infrared...can heat your skin" and he also posted that "the UV produces burns to the eyes -- retinas and*
lenses -- and to the skin."

Why don't you read the entire thread first.

But you said microwaves from welding were cooking the weldor. The amount of microwave power generated by welding in very low and does not increase the temperature of the weldor. Microwaves are not infrared. Microwaves are not ultraviolet.

From Wiki.

Microwaves are a form of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths ranging from as long as one meter to as short as one millimeter, or equivalently, with frequencies between 300 MHz (0.3 GHz) and 300 GHz.[1][2] This broad definition includes both UHF and EHF (millimeter waves), and various sources use different boundaries. In all cases, microwave includes the entire SHF band (3 to 30 GHz, or 10 to 1 cm) at minimum, with RF engineering often restricting the range between 1 and 100 GHz (300 and 3 m

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