MAGNETIC WATER MAKES CONCRETE STRONGER... SOMETIMES

EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED IN THE U.S.S.R. REVEAL THAT MAGNETIZED WATER RAISES THE STRENGTH OF CONCRETE BY 13-36 PERCENT, AS COMPARED TO USING ORDINARY WATER. SIMILAR STUDIES AT ANOTHER INSTITUTE TEND TO CONFIRM THESE FINDINGS, EXCEPT THAT THE HIGHER STRENGTH WAS OBTAINED ONLY IN 80 PERCENT OF THE EXPERIMENTS. RESEARCHERS FOUND THE CONCRETE GATHERED STRENGTH MORE RAPIDLY AT THE INITIAL RATHER THAN LATER PERIODS. RESEARCH AT ANOTHER INSTITUTE ACKNOWLEDGED THE FAVORABLE EFFECTS OF WATER MAGNETIZATION ON CONCRETE PROPERTIES, BUT OBSERVED SLOW SETTING IN THE INITIAL STAGES. THE ONLY DEFINITE CONCLUSION THAT CAN BE REACHED FROM THESE STUDIES IS THAT MAGNETIC TREATMENT DOES ALTER THE PROPERTIES OF WATER. MAGNETIC WATER IS FINDING ITS WAY INTO ORE AND COAL CONCENTRATION PROCESSES. DESALINATION OF PETROLEUM PRODUCTS BY MAGNETIZATION HAS BEEN FOUND TO BE POSSIBLE. SPECULATIONS ARE THAT MAGNETIZED WATER HAS APPLICATION IN THE MEDICAL AND AGRICULTURAL FIELDS, AS WELL AS IN CONCRETE PRODUCTION. STUDIES OF ONE ORGANIZATION LEAD TO THE FOLLOWING CONCLUSIONS: (1) FOR EVERY BINDER, THERE EXISTS A SPECIFIC MAGNETIC INTENSITY YIELDING A MAXIMUM INCREASE IN CONCRETE STRENGTH, (2) MAGNETIC WATER DEFINITELY CONTRIBUTES TO AN ACCELERATED GROWTH OF CONCRETE STRENGTH, AND (3) MAGNETIZED WATER USED IN A COMMERCIAL SETUP ACCOUNTED FOR A 10-30 PERCENT INCREASE IN CONCRETE STRENGTH, BUT NO DATA COULD BE DERIVED ON STRENGTH HOMOGENEITY.

• Publication Date: 1968-11

Media Info

• Pagination: 58 p.
• Serial:
  • World Construction
  • Publisher: Donnelley (Reuben H) Corporation

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Agriculture; Compressive strength; Concrete; Concrete mixing; Crude oil; Magnetic properties; Medicine; Physical properties; Water
• Uncontrolled Terms: Concrete properties
• Old TRIS Terms: Demineralization; Magnetization
• Subject Areas: Highways; Materials;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00213339
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 28 1994 12:00AM