Informative Essay: Basil And Radiation

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Good afternoon, today my group and I are going to present about Basil and Radiation.
Imagine if you were to walk into a 7-11 today, what would you see on the shelves? Chips? Candy? Microwaved food? There are shelves there dedicated to semi-prepared food that can be cooked in minutes using a microwave oven, and it’s not limited to convenience stores: almost every household in Bangkok use a microwave oven to reheat their food. Microwave ovens are associated with convenience so much that our group then questioned ‘what if instead of applying microwave rays to food, you apply them to the ingredients themselves’? Will that make the ingredients grow faster? Since we are not allowed to do animal testing, we turned to the other component of human

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