"Activated Water" on RTE

TomF

Why did RTE TV "Ear to the Ground" on February 12, 2004 and Pat Kenny Live, RTE1, give so much publicity on January 27th to something called "Activated Water" which to my eye looks an awful lot like just another "water treatment gadget"? And why did RTE not give equal time to a chemist who might have given the concept a critical evaluation instead of Pat allowing a monologue about "activated water" to be delivered by a man who claims some kind of association with the University of Limerick?

ecksor

What exactly is activated water?

TomF

If I understand it right, it is water "activated" by shining light through it, or by running the water through an electric field.

daveirl

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Capt'n Midnight

Activated Water - probably got some DHMO in it.

have a look at polywater

Electrolysis will of course produce Hydrogen and Oxygen - if there is sodium chloride you get sodium and chlorine - but chlorine reacts with water to produce both hydrochloric Acid and Hyprochloric acid - so you get a by product of hydrogen and a small amount of sodium hypochlorite. Would this have any effect ?

And then there is the deionisation by "magnetic" effects. Still undecided about it..

I suppose you could call Ozone, Acitvated Oxygen and it can be produced easily in an electric arc (it causes the funny smell off sparking contacts.)
AFAIK Water can't be converted easily to Hydrogen Peroxide (usually it's sodium peroxide that gets converted )

By comparison Activated Charcoal does exist and is better at what it does than un-activated charcoal.

amen

just as an side Pat Keeny has a degree in Chemical Engineering and used to lecture in the DIT