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Why There's a Grid on Your Microwave Door

Between you and your plate sits a perforated metal sheet, and that sheet is the wall keeping the microwaves in. Not the glass. A wave about five inches long meets holes a tenth of an inch across and finds a solid barrier. Visible light finds wide open doors. Same grid, opposite answers.

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