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Does Radiation From A Microwave Alloy With Skin Even Temporarily ?

" I am always wondering & maybe a little worried... If I cooked something inside a microwave , been close around it , let it cook something , take food out & been right next to the microwave or in the area of it & then decided immediately afterwards to go to & be close to & or use my electronics like my CD player & especially important handle & use my CD's & DVD's , will my just now being around the microwave & the radiation , however little it emits , will that be on or around me at the time I am in close or physical contact with my electronic devices & CD's or DVD's to where they can be damaged because of the radiation being on my skin because I was just close to a working microwave ? I am wondering even after I use the microwave even being far away from it , that just being in close or even in the kitchen in the same room as the microwave that waves or radiation will get on my skin & I always unsure of myself to touch my CD's or DVD's or any of my electronics just after being around the microwave & it's immediate proximity. I want to know that even after being around a microwave cooking something , that I can go into my livingroom , pick up a CD or DVD with my hands , the same hands I used to be around the microwave & handle things in & around the working & cooking microwave , & be able to handle & touch CD's or DVD's with or without worry that anything that I experienced from using the microwave only moments ago would have any immediate or adverse or negative effects on my electronics & or CD's & or DVD's.

Does anyone really know ? Seriously. No disrespect , But Please do not provide any guesses or sidebar talk or banter. I need some real scientific answers from the Pro's in here who know some real answers. Please clear my mind. I am always worried to be around my CD's because of recent radiation related business being taken care of with my microwave. I am wondering if microwave radiation alloys to the skin for however short of a time. I am not worried about me or my skin or my health. My main concern is the handling of my CD's & DVD's & what may be on my hands that will effect those items in such a catastrophic way , possibly by having those items be in contact with radiation or any type of microwave related airborne emissions or air particles emitted from the microwave.

I was also contemplating throwing away my re-usable shopping bag. The vinyl type you get from Walmart or Food 4 Less or anywhere else those re-usable big bags are sold , simply because those re-usable bags are in the kitchen in the same proximity of the microwave being in use. I use those vinyl re-usable bags to put my CD's in that I buy off of amazon.com when bringing them home from the post office. Are my vinyl re-usable bags effected ?

Sorry for the long question. I will be watching for my answer here like a hawk. I always monitor all my questions closely constantly all day. Again , please provide only professionally based answers. No guesses or commentary. "

Update:

I don't know what the Hell this Matt Wilson dude is talking about plastic containers for , but my question was never answered by him. I never asked anything about plastic containers , so why is that part of my answer for ? He must have gotten my question all twisted. I never mentioned anything about plastic containers. I was talking about Vinyl made shopping bags you get from like Walmart or Food 4 Less or other places that are like carrying bags that are supposed to revolutionize

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago
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    No.

    Plain, simple, no.

    Microwave energy is electromagnetic radiation. Like all electromagnetic radiation it propogates at the speed of light. 1 second after you turn the microwave off the last photon leaking from it is 300,000 kilometres away. None of it sticks to you.

  • 7 years ago

    We've answered this one before, but apparently not to your satisfaction. Now I understand that your concern is that your hands can somehow transmit the microwaves to your CD's and DVD's. They can't. Neither can your shopping bags. Unlike nuclear reactions, which emit actual radioactive PARTICLES, microwave ovens emit only microwaves, which, like sunlight, are quickly either absorbed or reflected and are not re-emitted as microwaves, but rather in the form of your body's infrared thermal energy. The aluminum coating on a CD acts an antenna for microwaves if you actually put a CD in your microwave oven and try to "cook" it.

    You got a perfectly good answer from Ecko about a month ago, but you seem to be psychiatrically obsessed with this subject. Reread that answer if you are rational, and maybe you will GET that microwave ovens do not deposit radioactive residue on anything.

  • 7 years ago

    Plastic containers by ziploc have been proven to cause cancer (only if you cook things in them in the microwave). It is not likely, but is still possible. If you are worried I recommend you buy plastic free containers that are microwave safe, many people use these because of the same fear.

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