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Re: Magnetic Water?



On Mon, 13 May 2002, pojhome wrote:

Are these guys pulling my leg??

http://clearwatermax.com/operation.htm

It seems to actually work in some circumstances. One Russian company was
founded by a chemist who had research papers on their website. He was
convinced that the small MHD effect caused by moving water in a magnetic
field would cause mineral crystallites to line up and bond together
(flocculate) as blobs of gel, where normally they stack up as stone-like
encrustations.

However, sometimes the magnets do nothing, and nobody knows why. If any
company hides the fact that these magnets are very unreliable, then that's
a group of scammers and ripoff artists. Also, if the product is far more
expensive than a handfull of magnets, then it's a total ripoff (I've seen
these things sold for $500, and they're just a couple of blocks of ferrite
magnets!)

Skeptical article:
http://web.archive.org/web/20020124144741/http://www.sfu.ca/aquascams/


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