Effects of Some Food Supplements and Containers on PH, Conductivity, Ionization and light Absorption of Water

Abstract

Water plays a central role in human life. Thus its physical properties affects human health directly .Thus the aim of this work is to study the effect of water containers and food supplements on the physical properties of water. This is done by examining the water conductivity, ionization degree, PH and light absorption using conductivity, ionization, PH and ultraviolet (UV) spectrometer devices respectively. Water was poured are put inside pride, steel, glass and plastic containers. The food supplements added to water for different concentrations are mint, ginger, lemon, cinnom and fenugreek respectively. The conductivity results shows no considerable changes upon increasing food supplements concentrations or changing the container. This may be attributed to the very low sensitivity of the conductivity device. Fortunately the ionization degree increase with concentration linearly. This may be related to the use of very sensitive ammeter on the scale of μA . The PH for all food supplements decreases upon increasing their concentrations, except ginger which increases his PH with concentration. The effect of the container on the water PH shows that only pride container increases water PH with time where it attains a maximum value of 7.17 after about 60 minutes. The UV test shows that the absorption coefficient of water in pride container increases with time. This means that pride containers are the best ones that make water healthy.