Re: OT: How-Microwaved-Water-Kills-Plants-After-Just-Days

[Guest guest]

http://www.snopes.com/science/microwave/plants.asp

On another group I am part of someone is trying to redo this experiment and

allow it to be blind. So he doesn't know which water is the microwave

water, which is tap and which is boiled. He is doing three waters - not

just two. He is having his son do the waters and put them in containers.

Plants are A, B, C ... waters a, b, c ... and he won't know which water is

which until the experiment is over. Since there have been studies that

intent, talking to plants, etc can have an impact they are trying to

eliminate this possible bias. I think they are also doing two or three

plants per water type as there is always per plant variability too even

when everything else is the same.

I'll let you know when they report back.

I got rid of my microwave awhile ago. I never really used it for food

anyway, mostly to heat my hot packs, but it bothered me to even have it in

the house, so I gave it away.

Jaxi

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 11:22 AM, N. Rutledge <

charlier1955@...> wrote:

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> In a science fair project, Arielle Reynolds a secondary school student in

> Sussex, demonstrated the effects of micro waved water fed to two

> genetically identical plants over a period of nine days. This is a great

> article which includes a good overview of the health hazards of Microwave

> ovens, the Russian research on the subject, and a summary with photographs

> of the students experiment. I am very excited about students doing this

> experiment, especially homeschoolers. This experiment can be done as a

> proper double blind experiment, by having one student set up the plants and

> water, marking the bottles A and B, and having the second student taking

> the bottles and marking the plants A and B, and the first student not even

> being in the same building as the second student until the 9 days are over.

> Fantastic. CharlieExeland, WI Some time ago, I stopped using a mirowave

> for everthing except heating water for coffee. I am completely done now.

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http://preventdisease.com/news/12/041712_Students-Experiment-Shows-How-Microwave\

d-Water-Kills-Plants-After-Just-Days.shtml

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[Guest guest]

I've also heard some doubts about the study, but since some trials did show

a difference, it makes me wonder...

Perhaps there is some other factor involved with a microwave, such as the

type of container used for heating the water. Perhaps the trials in which

plants died, received water that was heated by microwave in a plastic or

some other type of container which would leach toxic substances (whether

due to the radiation or the heat of the water would probably be unclear).

Personally, I stopped using a microwave several years ago - I figure better

safe than sorry. I understand that microwaves are not used in Europe. But

if you do still use one, stick with glass dishes/containers for sure.

LE

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Pixie <pixielou55@...> wrote:

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> I've tried this several times on my plants and they thrive just like they

> do on filtered water, rain water and tap water - they take what they can

> get and react the same (well, they do like the rain water the best). No

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> > Unfortunately this " study " is false. It has been disproved on snopes.comas

well as a few other sites.

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