CD Basics

CD-R media
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Microwaving a CD-R!



Please don’t try this at home or anywhere really! It’s easy to ruin your microwave and quite probably your house.
For the curious though, suspending a CD-R in the microwave and zapping it for 5 or so seconds will result in a fascinating light show. Blue sparks dance across the surface leaving a fractal-looking pattern behind. Using different coloured CD-Rs results in different fractal patterns.

  The pattern on a microwaved CD
Pattern on a microwaved CD-R