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Magnoball

Am I missing something, or is this pseudo-scientific claptrap?

Quote:
Both economical and environmentally safe, its magnetic power crystallises limescale particles in the water, preventing them from settling in your clothes or clogging up the heating elements and pipes of your washing machine or dishwasher.


From:
http://www.biggreensmile.com/products/magnoball/magnoball.aspx?productid=magnoball
Brownbear

Your life must be hell on wheels when the Innovations Catalogue is delivered.
sally_in_wales

no idea how reliable this is but it does claim a lab based trial
http://www.waterimp.co.uk/report.html
cab

sally_in_wales wrote:
no idea how reliable this is but it does claim a lab based trial
http://www.waterimp.co.uk/report.html


Not sure thats quite the same thing as this 'magnoball'. I know a chap in Chem Eng at Bath, I'll see if he knows who did that trial.
James

my guess is their confusing magnetism with ionization energy.

The disassociation of calcium carbonate in water is unstable in terms of equilibrium dynamics and the calcium and carbonate ions will try to re-associate (forming limescale), especially when the reaction is seeded up by boiling (kettle or washing machine furring). The carbonate is looking for spare positive ions and the calcium is looking for spare negative ions. By heating up water, energy is put into the ions which excites the electrons and allows the reaction to progress faster.

By providing another source of ionic charge, you can theoretically reduce the number of molecules of calcium and carbonate that get together.

...But being as we've had magnets since at least viking times, and had trouble with limescale for just as long, there's probably a good reason why we're not all doing as standard. If it worked, we'd already be doing it.
GENT

James wrote:
my guess is their confusing magnetism with ionization energy.

The disassociation of calcium carbonate in water is unstable in terms of equilibrium dynamics and the calcium and carbonate ions will try to re-associate (forming limescale), especially when the reaction is seeded up by boiling (kettle or washing machine furring). The carbonate is looking for spare positive ions and the calcium is looking for spare negative ions. By heating up water, energy is put into the ions which excites the electrons and allows the reaction to progress faster.

By providing another source of ionic charge, you can theoretically reduce the number of molecules of calcium and carbonate that get together.

...But being as we've had magnets since at least viking times, and had trouble with limescale for just as long, there's probably a good reason why we're not all doing as standard. If it worked, we'd already be doing it.


My head hurts.... Confused
jema

It sounds like twaddle to me, and I bet there is more to that test than is being let on.
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