MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF AGAR SOLUTIONS AND GELS PREPARED USING WATER EXPOSED TO ELEC-TROMAGNETIC FIELD

Abstract

The paper presents the results that continue the cycle of studies on the effect of a high-frequency field on water, which was later used to prepare agar solutions. The strength of agar gel (jelly) was studied depending on the conditions of field exposure to water. It is shown that the strength of the gel in a complex way depends on the frequency of field pretreatment and the time of water exposure after field exposure. The rheological properties were analyzed using the Ostwald-de Ville approximation equation. The dependence of the rheological constant (consistency coefficient) on the frequency of the field exposure and the exposure time after it is analyzed. Dependencies, as observed earlier, are non-systemic broken curves. The rheological properties and strength of the gel prepared in water that has undergone identical field treatment has been compared. The results can be conditionally divided into three groups: synbate change, antibate change and change of dependencies after 9 days of water exposure. It is shown that the strength and viscosity of the agar gel generally decreases. The complex dependences of strength and viscosity on factors affecting water are explained on the basis of the assumption of a complex and multilevel initial structure of water and its change both under the action of an electromagnetic field and over time as a result of thermal motion.