Use Shungite in Water to Purify with Fullerenes

I’m going to tell you how to use shungite in water, and the exact scientific reasons why you’d WANT (or not want) to use shungite in water.

There are 16 granted patents on shungite, meaning working uses. Most of the inventions are from the past five years, so interest in using shungite is mounting. Among the many uses for this ancient mineral, water restructuring is one of the most lucrative. A lot of people say shungite “purifies” water. But, if purification involves removing toxins, where do the toxins go?

We’ll explain why using shungite in water has similar absorbency properties to activated charcoal. Along the way, I’ll also let you in on some limitations in making “spiritually detoxed” water using shungite.

I became aware of studies that use pure extracted fullerene and not naturally-formed shungite. There were more animal studies of pure fullerene extracted from shungite. However, I decided to just look at mineral shungite.

Also, I noticed in studies many annealed or heat-treated the samples. The minimum temp for this procedure is usually 300 degrees Celsius. This treatment seemed to denature the shungite in some way, as the elements inside leeched into Evian water. [1] I decided to look at functional studies that minimized heat treatment.

Do people make shungite water for “health”?

There’s a lot going on. Shungite can purify water by way of the properties of the fullerenes, as you’ll learn ahead. Shungite’s named as a component in new water filtration techniques often. (#10,106,444 “vital straw”)

Also, Shungite has antioxidant properties, on the order of 1000 times less than isolated quercitin. [2] These antioxidant properties do increase when fullerene is extracted, [3] via a common practice washing method [4]. There’s an anti-aging supplement that names shungite as a source for fullerenes (#9,682,150). But, it doesn’t seem like this is the dominant feature of fullerenes in its unique mixed natural structure, and does chemically distort the surface area of the stone.

It’s weird to think that someone in the concrete, construction materials (#3,954,390), or waste management industries would definitely have some knowledge on the use of shungite. It’s used as filler or treatment medium. Many commercial industries use shungite in water and structural mixtures. Adding shungite is common practice in treatment of water, for example, purifying soil contaminated with rocket fuel.

How shungite interacts with polluted water

Shungite is known as a natural pantry of many otherwise rare forms of carbon. Nanotubes, check. Graphite, check. Fullerenes of all sizes?

Check. The properties of shungite are often influenced by C-60, carbon shells with pentagonal and hexagonal faces, 60 carbon atoms total.

Similar to zeolites, these molecules act like molecular sieves. Purely due to the size of the shell’s “gaps” and carbon’s willingness to form transitory bonds, particularly in fluids like water, molecules can be trapped within.

The size of the gaps tend to be on the the scale of pollutant metals and other certain inorganic (non-carbon-based) molecules commonly dissolved into water sources. So, by this effect, using shungite in water would be similar to using bentonite clay (a source of zeolite structures) or activated charcoal/activated carbon (soot-like with fullerenes) in water.

In shungite and zeolite, the main difference is that shungites have carbon, but the trace elements needed to create the molecular sieves are all there. Aluminum oxides and silicon oxides create the 6 or five membered rings, truncated tetrahedra, etc needed. Natural impurities may seem unfitting for particular uses, and that’s right. Shungite can have a wide range of carbon % and still count as shungite. The OG from Shunga frequented between 83-88% carbon.

The carbon in shungite is uncrystallized, with some areas closer to graphite, some more like soot, and others glassy carbon. In this way it is “maximally disordered,” giving the potential to react with a variety of solutes in fluids. We also find onion-like structures with different sizes of fullerene.

1. All of these features make up shungite’s character.
   • A variety of fullerenes
   • C60 fullerenes
   • Zeolite structures, whether related to the fullerenes or not
   • Caged onion-like fullerenes
   • Graphite, graphene
   • High content of assorted elements, as we’ll see

Results of using shungite in water

This is the important part. Distilled water set with shungite leeches extremely high amounts or iron, nickel, and other elements. [5] At the same time, the water had very reduced microbial contaminants. The reason for this could be the mineral leeching. For example, the high concentration of iron is not chill for microorganisms. You can see the leeching concentrations of various minerals from the study below.

A study on shungite as an alternative perservative in fresh juices reinforces the case for shungite’s antimicrobial properties. [6]

How to actually probably use shungite in water

In adding bentonite clay or charcoal to your water, you then would have to separate the powders out or ingest them. This refers to removing the potentially leeched minerals trapped in the molecular cages. You could separate them by soaking shungite, then filtering the pure water from your mixture. Or, you could experiment with distillation after soaking shungite. If you do ingest the “trapped” toxins, both clay and soot is non-digestable. Meaning: your digestive system won’t “open” the shells and spill out the toxins to be absorbed then into YOU. Just like ye ole celery fibers, it will be passed through. Your body is not going to try to integrate these into your cells.

My advice is to experiment with whole shungite rocks in a reservoir prior to filtration. This way, your downstream purification technique will remove the “dust” and you’ll have less taxation on the digestive system. This way you also won’t have to worry about the leeched minerals. Using rainwater or spring water with this treatment seems like a good call in particular.

Fullerenes give water structure

Shungite doesn’t just remove toxins and purify water. Because of those same fullerenes that enclose pollutants it encounters, shungite can “restructure” water. “Restructuring” water simply means the molecules of the water are in a state of higher coherence. A fluid with higher coherence can transmit information across it with less resistance. These are the exact states you want in the extra-cellular matrices of your body cells. Your body can electrically mount responses and see through the resolution (i.e., heal) much more efficiently in this state. Fullerenes in general structure water, but that can be a whole post on its own.

Particularly for shungite we also have a jillion other elements in its highly ansiotropic (non-symmetrically ordered) makeup. This “molecular pantry” is going to to give the solvent fluid a wide variety of energetic signals to potentially resonate with and get that state of coherence that the water can fall into. Remember, molecular coherence in a fluid is about the energy moving through the molecules of the fluid and transmitting that across it. It’s an actual measurable thing related to entropy, and not a random woo term. So, even though distilling shungite water should give empty water with no other elements, I encourage those with distillers to experiment with distilling shungite water.

Glancing below you can imagine I couldn’t fit all my research on shungites into a reasonably-lengthed post. This is the second in the series, the first being here. There will be at least one more post on shungite, regarding its emf protective properties. I am expecting the emf protective properties to actually be a MUCH more practical use of shungite than using shungite in water. There will also be a few other posts on fullerenes in particular because the next part of the patent manifesto series deals heavily with fullerenes! Stay tuned!

Sources:

[1] Jurgelane, I., & Locs, J. (2021). Shungite application for treatment of drinking water – Is it the right choice? Journal of Water and Health, 19(1), 89–96. https://doi.org/10.2166/WH.2020.139

[2] Skrypnik, L., Babich, O., Sukhikh, S., Shishko, O., Ivanova, S., Mozhei, O., Kochish, I., & Nikonov, I. (2021). A study of the antioxidant, cytotoxic activity and adsorption properties of karelian shungite by physicochemical methods. Antioxidants, 10(7). https://doi.org/10.3390/antiox10071121

[3] Xiao, L., Takada, H., Maeda, K., Haramoto, M., & Miwa, N. (2005). Antioxidant effects of water-soluble fullerene derivatives against ultraviolet ray or peroxylipid through their action of scavenging the reactive oxygen species in human skin keratinocytes. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 59(7), 351–358. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopha.2005.02.004

[4] Rozhkova, N. N., Andrievsky, G. v, Derevyanchenko, L. I., Klochkov, V. K., & Shulyakovskaya, E. v. (2000). EXTRACTION OF FULLERENES FROM SHUNGITE CARBON BY WATER-CONTAINING SOLVENTS. In Eurocarbon.

[5] Charykova, M. v., Bornyakova, I. I., Polekhovskii, Y. S., Charykov, N. A., Kustova, E. v., & Arapov, O. v. (2006). Chemical composition of extracts from shungite and “shungite water.” Russian Journal of Applied Chemistry, 79(1), 29–33. https://doi.org/10.1134/S107042720601006X

[6] Lyudmila, M., Oleksandr, B., & Svitlana, M. (2013). Microbiological, Physico-Chemical and Organoleptic Parameters of Apple Juice, Processed by Shungite. In Journal of Food Science and Engineering (Vol. 3). http://dspace.nuft.edu.ua/bitstream/123456789/11137/4/13%2009%20Melnyk%20USA.pdf

[7] Ignatov, I., & Mosin, O. (2015). Physical-Chemical Properties of Mountain Water From Bulgaria Influenced by a Fullerene Containing Mineral Shungite and Aluminosilicate Mineral Zeolite. An International Peer-Reviewed Journal, 16. www.iiste.org

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