Re: Q and water

["Jan Florian Wagner" <jwagner-at-xxxxxxxxx> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-xxxxxxxxxx>)]

> > do you know why the Q of the secondary drops so drastically (as some on
> > this list noted) when a damp cardboard or other material is stuck inside?
> Turns out that the "resonance" of water isn't all that signficant in a
> microwave oven, whereas the plain old conductivity is.  What you've got in
> the damp cardboard case is a resistor (i.e. damp cardboard) coupled to the
> coil....

So there should be an electric field also inside the coil?