Chemistry in all its States

1 • The Microwave Oven: from the Kitchen to Synthesis Chemistry “A microwave oven is a domestic appliance that is mainly used to heat up food quickly, by agitating the water molecules contained in the food under the effect of a microwave radiation” (Wikipedia). From the outset, this technology was mainly used in the kitchen and sometimes in highly precise industrial applications. However, for the last twenty years or so microwave has also been used in chemistry laboratories, to activate chem..