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New Electrolyzed water use spreading in US
http://articles.lati...s/fi-magicwater23
It's a kitchen degreaser. It's a window cleaner. It kills athlete's foot. Oh, and you can drink it.

Sounds like the old "Saturday Night Live" gag for Shimmer, the faux floor polish plugged by Gilda Radner. But the elixir is real. It has been approved by U.S regulators. And it's starting to replace the toxic chemicals Americans use at home and on the job.

The stuff is a simple mixture of table salt and tap water whose ions have been scrambled with an electric current. Researchers have dubbed it electrolyzed water -- hardly as catchy as Mr. Clean. But at the Sheraton Delfina in Santa Monica, some hotel workers are calling it el liquido milagroso -- the miracle liquid.

It turns out that zapping salt water with low-voltage electricity creates a couple of powerful yet nontoxic cleaning agents. Sodium ions are converted into sodium hydroxide, an alkaline liquid that cleans and degreases like detergent, but without the scrubbing bubbles. Chloride ions become hypochlorous acid, a potent disinfectant known as acid water.

"It's 10 times more effective than bleach in killing bacteria," said Yen-Con Hung, a professor of food science at the University of Georgia-Griffin, who has been researching electrolyzed water for more than a decade. "And it's safe."

Neat technology. Still has a way to go before it's ready for home use, but for a business this makes a lot of sense. The one time charge for the equipment will be quickly offset by the lower cost of materials and the health benefits are just a bonus.

Jay
New Cool, where can I buy it?
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Drew
New You can't
It's very perishable - you have to make it on-site. Institutional machines are quite expensive but it's inevitable economical home machines will be developed.
New /me can see it now...
First its Environmentally Friendly... until the Nukes power the machine to actually activate the stuff.... then the Natural Gas Generators and Coal... the HORROR.

And someone will try to drink it when its activated... and get killed by it and leave no trace.
Expand Edited by folkert April 30, 2009, 12:28:16 PM EDT
New Actually drinking it seems not to be a problem.
If I recall correctly it's harmless. Now the coal burning power plant providing the electricity is spewing radioactive coal dust into the atmosphere - which you'll need more activated water to clean up, which means you need more electrical power . . .
New Suggested TM ... 'Recursion Remedy'?
     Electrolyzed water use spreading in US - (jay) - (5)
         Cool, where can I buy it? -NT - (drook) - (4)
             You can't - (Andrew Grygus) - (3)
                 /me can see it now... - (folkert) - (2)
                     Actually drinking it seems not to be a problem. - (Andrew Grygus) - (1)
                         Suggested TM ... 'Recursion Remedy'? -NT - (Ashton)

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