A New Use For Tourmaline!

Check out:

[www.kinoki.com] and [www.buykinoki.com]

I wonder if they use uvite, schorl, or elbaite?

Doesn't anything at room temperature emit far infrared waves?

I didn't think I'd see anything worse than the tourmaline hair dryers, but wow...

There is a hairdryer called the Tourmaline because it contains tourmaline doped ceramic.

The advertiser confidently stated "tourmaline is the only thing on Earth that contains constant electricity"

I don't know if I should laugh or cry.

or just use the dang hairdryer!

Is it supposed to grow hair or curl hair? LOL, if it's to grow hair, how many should I buy? Is it a one-time deal, or do I need a life-time supply? How many specimens do they waste on these hairdryers or is it just a way of getting money from junk pieces? What will they come up with next? Fake turquoise? Green quartz? Say it ain't so.

Concerning the claims made for the Kinoki foot patch, won't any substance when warmed to body or "room" temperature emmit radiation in the infra-red wavelengths?

but its got "natural power of nature" so it must be real. gonna order some of these just as soon as I get done looking over my deeds to the Brooklyn bridge gotta good deal on that. and with my Azeztulite pendant I'll never get sick again

And here it is, fresh off the shelf at a local drugstore. What I'm real curious about is the bit about ionization. Ionizing radiation tends to break down organic molecules pretty quickly. If this thing works as advertised, won't it make your hair fall apart?

Hair dryers/stylers with tourmaline ceramic plates are also manufactured by Philips:

[www.consumer.philips.com]

From a infomercial in VISA-magazine 1/2008 (translated):
"... Since above 80°C tourmaline changes the air oxygen into negative ions, the electric charging of hair is no longer a problem."

Whatever...

Oxygen radicals will attack organics pretty aggressivly, hense the properties of hydorgen peroxide, ozone, etc. I fail to see how this would be good for your hair, unless you have too much of it.

Jesse, have you disassembled your new acquisition to see the tourmaline? If so perhaps a picture of tourmaline "in situ" should be added to Mindat?

"Oxygen radicals will attack organics pretty aggressivly" isn't quite true. Oxygen in air (i.e, dioxygen) is an oxygen radical, but it doesn't attack MY organics vry quickly. Sorry, but I teach organic chemistry to hundreds of pre-meds each quarter....

Steve

Well, Steve, I actually did get into the thing and look what I found! Please don't tell my wife what I did to her new hair drier, though.

So now instead of using rulers or coins for scale we use disassembled hairdryers? ROFL!

I guess this explains why my hair was always easy to manage and I had no split ends when I was collecting at the Himalaya Mine....

Must be schrol because it is the least expensive. I would say they utilize the electrical properties to condition the hair one way or another.

http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezoelectric_sensor

http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezoelectric

http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroelectricity

"Pyroelectricity is the ability of certain materials to generate an electrical potential when they are heated or cooled. As a result of this change in temperature, positive and negative charges move to opposite ends through migration (i.e. the material becomes polarized) and hence, an electrical potential is established."

yup the goal is only to get rid of static electricity in the hairs and make combing easier.

Tourmalines have been used in a variety of application -- but this latest one remains to be puzzling to me. In all these years, there has been a fairly secretive Japanese lab in and near Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, the principal region in Brazil where many of the tourmaline mines were in operation and many are still in operation.

I have been told , where the pulverized black tourmaline has been used in the painting of oceanliners -- where the cost is much higher than most -- and yet, it seems to the many Japanese users of the coating of tourmaline had kept the barnacles growth onto these oceanliners -- thus, have greater saving by the longer time and endurance when these ships are painted with fine mesh of tourmaline ...

Just one of the few observations and comments from many others -- and we all know Tourmalines have always been used in the many missiles systems -- because tourmaline does have that touch to have magnetized (maybe a wrong term) where they will keep most of the dust away from other precision instruments.

"... these ships are painted with fine mesh of tourmaline ..."
Maybe simply because of the sharp edges of the crushed fragments...

Hey Jesse. That seems like a nice sized tourmaline to me. How much did the hairdryer cost?

Speaking both as a mineral collector and a woman who is always fighting static electricity in her hair, I can truthfully state that I love my new tourmaline hair dryer...not because of that lovely pink gem that apparently lurks within, but because it truly does eliminate static from my hair. Since I bought mine about four weeks ago, I have suddenly been getting compliments from men about how nice my hair looks. Wow! At age 59, that is certainly a nice surprise!

But now I am so tempted to take mine apart and see if I can find a "tourmaline surprise" within. I'm thinking...probably not. I'll just keep using it as a hairdryer.

Pat Burkhart

To All,
Thanks for the laughs. I needed a good ha-ha tonight. I will never look at my hair dryer the same again. Trying to decide whether to add it to my mineral collection catalog. Not quite sure what to list for mineral locality since I refuse to take it apart!

LOL
Linda