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Some additional thoughts

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In Reply to: RE: AR limited edition RIQ5010R is blood red in color posted by unclestu52 on March 27, 2008 at 01:12:04

Titanium Dioxide is a photo catalyst with some interesting properties. There is a company marketing compact fluorescent bulbs coated with TiO2 claiming antibiotic properties. The there is the "phiten" craze just beginning. Apparently developed in Japan it uses TiO2 ti generate negative ions which are supposed to have healing benefits. There are a number of major League Baseball players who use the products (Boston, IIRC. They claim to be able to impregnate even clothing with it to provide some measure of heat and pain relief.

According to Wikipedia, the TiO2, wen exposed to UV creates a redox reaction, normally breaking down water molecules into an HO- and O- constituents. The use of this in an extremely low humidity area may be negligible, but the Phiten products are worn on the body so the normal water within provides the material for the redox reaction.

I recently posted something abut this on Iso, as I was given a bracelet for my left wrist after undergoing a fistula. In driving around, I noticed that my car stereo sounded more dynamic and fuller in the lower frequencies. Simply sticking my arm out the window reduced the effect although the bracelet was still on the wrist and line of sight with my ears. I queried the couple who had given me the bracelet, and they went to listen to their system with and without his bracelet, and he reported the same effect, noticing that when placed closest to the speaker the effect was more pronounced.

Now the effect is not huge, but it is audible ( also visible on my LCD set, BTW).

Anyway, food for thought, YMMV, etc.

Stu

Follow Ups:

RE: Phiten - Atwood 23:17:50 03/28/08 (1)
- RE: Phiten - unclestu52 00:08:06 03/29/08 (0)

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