> 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. ----- The very act of seeking sets something in motion to meet us; something in the universe, or in the unconscious responds as if to an invitation. - Jean Shinoda Bolen http://WWW.BlessedBee.ca