Hi Sell58,
My main interest is in Shungite and its carbon 60-like properties. It is my sense that Shungite has more to offer than the man-made version of C60 that everyone here is adding to olive oil, but I'm reluctant to post anything about it at this time. Perhaps when I have more research/experimentation under my belt.
If you don't mind explaining in more detail, what type of experiments were you planning on trying with shungite and vegetable seeds? This is moving away from the topic, so it might be better suited in a new thread.
Dear Sell58 and Somecallmetim,
Be patient please, but now i am preparing my reply as of yours non-simple questions.
SMIE (Sorry for My Imperfect English)!
Yes, the question about schungits, fullerenes and special properties of water is really actual topic to find out all aspects of it. But it, probably, not for this thread.
Nevertheless I’d like to say, that expected effects could be both positive and negative. Why? All depends on samples of schungits: some samples (ShC1) can contain fullerenes, the other ones (ShC2) don’t contain them.
(Photo of three types of Schungits it's possible to see at the end of this message)Also some samples of schungits can contain toxic ions of heavy metals, such as cadmium, zinc etc. How such factor can influence the germination, further growth and health of plants is hard predictable.
Additionally, even if the high-carbon schungits (ShC1) contain C60 (approximately 0.001 - 0.04 % w/w, according to our data, e.g. on
http://www.ipacom.co...lin 2000_en.pdf), it is impossible to extract them with water, since fullerenes are strong connected with silicate-carbonic matrix of the schungite because of donor-acceptor bonds between C60 and oxygen-containing natural components of schungits.
But why schungite is biological active?
Working with this material many years, we have come to understanding that fullerenes (Ñ60 first of all), being in schungits, determine their fullerene-like microstructures. As a result of this, when water contacts with C60 containing schungits, it gets special structures, which are similar to the water ones, surrounding hydrated C60 (HyFn).
In other words, the appearance of biological properties of water, drawn on the schungite, is determined by the water structures, which water acquired, contacting with the surface of the schungite stones (see on
http://www.ipacom.co...d-water-left/57 and more extended version of this see on
http://www.ipacom.co...es-and-water/57, sorry, but in Russian).
Regarding the question of the schungits radioactivity I could say, that there should not be problems with it at all, because in the late fifties of the last century the Ministry of Health of USSR allowed the using of schungite paste for external use for treatment of skin and joints diseases. Moreover, in the early nineties of the last century, household and semi-industrial schungite øóíãèòíûå filters (in a combination with zeolites) have been officially allowed in Russia and used now for clearing and preparation of qualitative potable water (e.g., see on
http://www.shungitpl...ning_water.html).
As a conclusion, there are all grounds to insist that there is no sense to continue the discussion of questions about the radioactivity of the schungits on this forum, and it could be organized a separate thread for the discussion of questions about the correlation of the biological activity between “water+schungite” and “C60+OO”.
SMIE!
Edited by GVA, 07 February 2013 - 06:00 PM.