Laundry Magnet?

[Whydoe]

Thank goodness for water being the closest thing to a universal solvents.

http://www.lifenatural.com/laundry.htm

Maybe the ol' washboard that great great grandma used had a bit of magnetism too! Would this be testable for the million?

 

[JLam]

This is a great big giant load of

Let's examine the claim they make about lab testing:

PATENTED AND INDEPENDENTLY PROVEN!...There Is No Other Non-Detergent Laundry Technology In Existence That Has Two United States Patents (and Additional Patents Pending) and Is Proven In Independent Laboratory Testing. You Have Never Seen, Heard About Or Tried Anything Like It Before!

Ooh, patents. That must mean it works!

Proven in Independent Laboratory Testing? Wow. That's cool. I was immediately suspicious, but then they provided a link to the actual lab report, conducted by an actual honest-to-goodness lab.

Then I read the report.

There's a notation on it that says you can't reproduce it, so I won't copy it word for word, but the gist of the conclusion here is simply that the test material exhibited soil removal after having been run through a wash cycle with these silly magnets.

Well, of course the test material would exhibit soil removal! You just ran it through a washing machine! It never said how much soil was removed. It just said that soil was removed. The lab report makes no claims as to how clean the test material was in comparison to laundry washed with detergent, or in comparison to a load without the magnets.

Of course, the average joe isn't going to read the report this closely. They'll just look and see that there's a report of some kind and figure "Hey, that's good enough for me."

Pathetic. Seriously pathetic.

 

[bruto]

On an atomic level, everything is affected by magnetics.

Wow! That's exciting news. They must be on to something all right.

However, we should not sell this laundry process entirely short. It does appear capable of removing money from pockets.

 

[LordoftheLeftHand]

From a different website (http://befreetech.com/laundryballs.htm) selling what I think is the same exact product:

When water, or any stream of atoms, enters a powerful magnetic field, it physically changes in the same way atoms change when run through particle accelerators used by physicists.​

In effect, the water is ionized. Negatively changed oxygen ions are stripped from stable water molecules and are freed to perform a number of tasks.

I remember electrolyzing water in chemistry class in High School. As I remember it, it yielded hydrogen and oxygen gas. If this stuff worked wouldn't it be a fire hazard?

LLH
*edited spelling

 

[LordoftheLeftHand]

From their “lab test” documentation: (their documentation is in gif format so I have to retype it, I will try not to make any errors)

OBJECTIVE:
As directed by the client the objective of the project was to determine whether various soiled swatches wasted in the presence of the Life Miracle magnetic units were cleaner after washing.

Then it goes on to talk about what kind of materials they used to soil it and how they tested it after the wash.

CONCLUSION:

As can be seen from the Delta E data, the soiled fabric swatches exhibited soil removal after washing with the Life Miracle magnetic units.

Notice that they are only testing to see if cloth washed with magnets present in the wash will become cleaner. They didn’t run a load of swatches in a machine without magnets and compare it to the load with magnets. So they have managed to establish that water (with or without magnets) cleans clothes!

LLH