Magnetic Water Softening: Does it work?
Magnetic water softening is a mysterious phenomenon to most people, and even many of us who have taken a few courses in college physics often don’t feel we really “understand” it. In the 19th century, hucksters and scam artists were taking advantage of the public’s ignorance of magnetism by offering fraudulent magnetic products to treat everything from baldness to impotence, and an even wider variety of magical wonders are being hawked over the Internet nowadays. Schemes for magnetic water treatment (MWT) began appearing in the 1930’s. One would think that the question of MWT’s effectiveness would have long since been resolved, but for a number of reasons this has still not happened. Most water-treatment engineers who have investigated magnetic water treatment (MWT) in industrial settings report negative results, and there are no confirmed reports of successful MWT installations in the reputable scientific and engineering literature. Most scientists who have looked into MWT remain very
