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How do ants survive in the microwave?

I had a heap of ants in the microwave, I tried to nuke them on high for a few minutes.
But nothing happened to them,  no change. They just kept moving around as per normal.
gpt
Ants are not too small to be heated. They are small enough to dodge the hotspots though.

Microwaves work best if the target is something conductive, pointy and a half-multiple of the wavelength in size (e.g. the tines on the fork you stupidly stuck in there) but the goal of a household oven is to gently heat things, not convert them to glowing balls of plasma.

Water molecules have a resonant frequency. Household microwaves hit that frequency and force water molecules to rapidly flip back and forth, which heats anything that has any moisture in it including ants without inducing dangerous electrical currents. This applies to one water molecule or a trillion water molecules or however many there are in a baked potato.

The difference between an ant and a popcorn kernel is that the ant is mobile and not completely stupid. Microwaves bouncing around in the oven create patterns of constructive and destructive interference. An ant is small enough to fit in a spot of destructive interference and will stand there all day, cursing the God that created such a bizarre hell for it.