Growth Characteristics of Chilli Pepper (Capsicum annuum) under the Effect of Magnetizing Water with Neodymium Magnets (NdFeB)

Abstract

Many factors affect plant growth and development, such as exposure to electromagnetic radiation (Alattar, Alwasife, & Radwan, 2020) and magnetic fields (Podleśna, Bojarszczuk, & Podleśny, 2019). Many studies have extensively studied the direct exposure to plants or their seeds to magnetic fields from the past years. However, little has interested in the impact of magnetized water on the growth characteristics of plants. Passing water through a magnetic field resulted in producing magnetized water (Higashitani, Kage, Katamura, Imai, & Hatade, 1993). The previous studies revealed that a low magnetic field could alter the water to be magnetized (Ji, Xie, & Liu, 2007). As a result of magnetization, water properties, including physical, chemical, physicochemical, and biophysical properties, change such as salt solution capacity, density, viscosity, freezing and boiling points, surface tension, electrical conductivity, ARTICLE INFO