The magnetron is a high-powered vacuum tube that generates microwaves using the interaction of a stream of electrons with a magnetic field while moving through resonant cavities. It is the core component responsible for producing the electromagnetic radiation that heats food in a microwave oven.
In Microwave oven, the microwave tube used is:
Asked in RPSC RAS Prelims 2012 · Topic: Wave Motion (Electromagnetic Waves: Properties, Electromagnetic Spectrum, Energy and Momentum)
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