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Re: Killing bacteria with low voltage science fair project
« Reply #20 on: 27/09/2017 21:15:25 »
Quote from: RD on 26/09/2017 03:42:52
Quote from: profound on 25/09/2017 11:43:35
i have applied it thousands of times to me and family members without any ill effects to boils,pimples,acne,infections.

Typically acne & boils resolve themselves without treatment. So you'd need to do a large-population-trial, with a control group to see if applying electric shocks to pustules was beneficial / harmful / neutral.

Generally avoid self-assessment as it is unreliable, particularly if the alleged treatment is painful :
 if someone was applying electric shocks to me until I said I felt better, I would be tempted to say I was improving even if I wasn't.



They resolve much much faster with the piezo treatment.Sometimes within a day.The sooner you apply the sooner it resolves.

As soon as you feel a boil/pimple coming up you zap it a few times and it will not go through the normal slow cycle of becoming large,bursting,oozing pus and then slowly fading away.

This can take a week or longer.

Zap it and it will not go through this slow cycle.you can buy it of amazon as insect bite zapper,etc.
its just a cigarette lighter sparker in a larger case.

Many girls feel suicidal after seeing spots/pimples/boils on their face.,

Your picture with your sinister intentions showing a high current 100000 volt tazer is misleading,alarming and designed to frighten people.

Could you also post a picture of the piezoelectric spark generator from a cigarette lighter next to it.

This would be in interest of fairness.
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Re: Killing bacteria with low voltage science fair project
« Reply #21 on: 27/09/2017 21:48:12 »
Quote from: Zapper Dave on 04/11/2013 21:47:10
3 problems here, First, I did not use copper. Three different tests were done using brass ( yes, some possible copper contamination ), stainless steel, and aluminum. I expect to do it again with titanium and platinum.
You may have heard of the anticancer drug cisplatin.
It was discovered when someone tried to measure the effect of electric fields on bacterial cells. The results were remarkable.
But it turned out not to be the electric field that did the job of killing cells- it was platinum salts produced by electrolysis.

http://theconversation.com/happy-50th-anniversary-to-cisplatin-the-drug-that-changed-cancer-treatment-38382

What's that quote about people who don't study history and repeating it?

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Re: Killing bacteria with low voltage science fair project
« Reply #22 on: 28/09/2017 07:22:17 »
Quote from: Bored chemist on 27/09/2017 21:48:12
Quote from: Zapper Dave on 04/11/2013 21:47:10
3 problems here, First, I did not use copper. Three different tests were done using brass ( yes, some possible copper contamination ), stainless steel, and aluminum. I expect to do it again with titanium and platinum.
You may have heard of the anticancer drug cisplatin.
It was discovered when someone tried to measure the effect of electric fields on bacterial cells. The results were remarkable.
But it turned out not to be the electric field that did the job of killing cells- it was platinum salts produced by electrolysis.

http://theconversation.com/happy-50th-anniversary-to-cisplatin-the-drug-that-changed-cancer-treatment-38382

What's that quote about people who don't study history and repeating it?



cisplatin is irrelevant.
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Re: Killing bacteria with low voltage science fair project
« Reply #23 on: 28/09/2017 19:42:11 »
Quote from: profound on 28/09/2017 07:22:17
cisplatin is irrelevant.
Why?
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Re: Killing bacteria with low voltage science fair project
« Reply #24 on: 30/09/2017 21:49:50 »
Quote from: Bored chemist on 28/09/2017 19:42:11
Quote from: profound on 28/09/2017 07:22:17
cisplatin is irrelevant.
Why?


It has nothing to do with the subject header.
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Re: Killing bacteria with low voltage science fair project
« Reply #25 on: 30/09/2017 22:13:12 »
Quote from: profound on 30/09/2017 21:49:50
Killing bacteria with low voltage

Do you understand that cisplatin was originally discovered by someone trying to "Killing bacteria with low voltage"?

Someone- doing exactly what the thread title is trying to do- got the wrong answers because of cisplatin; yet you don't think it's relevant.

Are you sure you are looking at the right thread?
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Re: Killing bacteria with low voltage science fair project
« Reply #26 on: 07/10/2017 21:11:47 »
Quote from: Bored chemist on 30/09/2017 22:13:12
Quote from: profound on 30/09/2017 21:49:50
Killing bacteria with low voltage

Do you understand that cisplatin was originally discovered by someone trying to "Killing bacteria with low voltage"?

Someone- doing exactly what the thread title is trying to do- got the wrong answers because of cisplatin; yet you don't think it's relevant.

Are you sure you are looking at the right thread?



You are promoting cisplatin. Maybe you have stock options in it.Drugs were not mentioned and suddenly you talk of cisplatin as a cure for cancer.IF CISPLATIN is so WONDERFUL explain all these cancer deaths:-

In males, there were around 86,500 cancer deaths in the UK in 2014. In females, there were around 76,900 cancer deaths in the UK in 2014. Every four minutes someone in the UK dies from cancer. Lung, bowel, breast and prostate cancers together accounted for almost half (46%) of all cancer deaths in the UK in 2014.

If cisplatin worked you would not get these cancer deaths.
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Re: Killing bacteria with low voltage science fair project
« Reply #27 on: 08/10/2017 16:40:22 »
Quote from: profound on 07/10/2017 21:11:47
You are promoting cisplatin. Maybe you have stock options in it.Drugs were not mentioned and suddenly you talk of cisplatin as a cure for cancer.IF CISPLATIN is so WONDERFUL explain all these cancer deaths:-

In males, there were around 86,500 cancer deaths in the UK in 2014. In females, there were around 76,900 cancer deaths in the UK in 2014. Every four minutes someone in the UK dies from cancer. Lung, bowel, breast and prostate cancers together accounted for almost half (46%) of all cancer deaths in the UK in 2014.

If cisplatin worked you would not get these cancer deaths.
Nonsense from start to finish.
I just pointed out that the experiment might not end up measuring the effect of an electric field.
Cisplatin, like most anti cancer drugs isn't much of a laugh. If I remember rightly it's quite good at destroying some testicular cancer.
Feel free to check, but please don't post any more silly speculations about my investments- they just make you look irrational.
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