Microwaved Water and Plants

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Microwaved Water and Plants

 

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Below is a science fair project that my granddaughter did for 2006.

In it she took filtered water and divided it into two parts. The

first part she heated to boiling in a pan on the stove, and the

second part she heated to boiling in a microwave.

 

Then after cooling she used the water to water two identical plants

to see if there would be any difference in the growth between the

normal boiled water and the water boiled in a microwave.

 

She was thinking that the structure or energy of the water may be

compromised by microwave. As it turned out, even she was amazed at

the difference.

 

Below are the pictures that were actually submitted with the

project. Some of them were created with photoshop for the science

fair presentation from the original photos, so the display would be

consistant and easy to follow. The actual original photos are posted

at the bottom with thumbnails. They are thumbnailed because the

original photos were extremely high resolution. Marshall Dudley

 

 

 

Bottom line is, the results are interesting, and duplicate the

results that others have reported (try Googling ' " microwaved water "

plants') more experiments need to be done with better controls and

as a double blind study. But this was a simple 6th grade science

fair project, and was never intended to be anything more than that.

 

The plants were genetically identical, they were produced from

graphs from the same parent plant, so that variable can be

eliminated.

 

The actual photos each were spliced from in in these below without

modification.