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> 1 "Negative ions" (usual scientific term 'anions' - ions attracted
> to an anode i.e a positive electrode) improve health beyond doubt.
Which anions - all of them? What positive effect do they have? It bugs me
that people make claims for "negative ions" as thought there is this is one
thing. What little I remember of 1st year chemistry suggests that there are
certainly hundreds or possibly millions of negatively charged ions. Does
the layman's term "negative ions" refer to all of these?
> 2 Anions also abound near waterfalls and surf - helping perhaps
> to explain the current series of 'Doonesbury', but anyhow commonly felt to
> improve well-being.
Does agitation of water create anions, or does it cause anions in the water
to become air born?
> 4 Don't 'beeswax' candles typically also contain a proportion of
> paraffin? Recipes I've seen certainly do.
Many people sell pure beeswax candles. Others I suppose reduce costs by
mixing with paraffin.
> Candles help people in many undoubted ways. Perhaps anion
> generation will turn out to be another; but I'd discourage hype based on
> this claim, until it gets clarified.
That is exactly why I am asking. If there is some benefit here I want to
tell people about it, but I am not going to spread this information without
having at least a rudimentary understanding of what it means and nodding
heads from people that understand it better than I do. I know that the
BEE-L membership includes many scientists from different disciplines and I
am hoping that they will be able to clarify this for me.
Frank.
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