Microwaving Water bad for plants

Factual Questions
1

I have never heard this before till I stumbled upon it on Google.

Seems that if you microwave water first then allow it to cool it does harm to plants.

I find this hard to believe. I have found a bunch of websites with people claiming to have done experiements heating water then cooling it using a microwave and a regular tea kettle to heat it.

The plants watered with the microwaved hot - then cooled water did badly while the plants watered with the water heated by a tea kettle over a flame - then cooled, did as well as water not heated at all.

All the water was from the same source.

I just find this hard to believe and I realize anyone can say anything on a website. Has their been any hard science done on this?

2

Snopes.

At least one page I found with Google indicated that the “evidence” was some kid’s science fair project.

3

Duh!
Microwaving water changes the bond angle, and removes all the life from it. Everyone knows that.
:smack: :rolleyes: :smiley:

4

There have been reports from all over the country of people found dead in employee lunchrooms, still clutching mugs of coffee that had been reheated in microwaves.

It’s true! I heard from someone who heard it on Oprah.

We don’t need none of your “controlled experiments”.

Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?

5

It’s the other way around. In one study, plants that received microwaved water grew six times as well as plants that received no water at all.

6

Have you tried taking the plant out of the microwave before heating the water?