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…to see some really awesome photographs of rainbows.

You’re welcome.

Talk about your your winning science fair project ideas. Another version appears here.

There’s a little room for improvement, though: the real control should have been unheated purified water from the same batch, in addition to the boiled vs. microwaved. I’m also a little concerned about the notion “that the structure or energy of the water may be compromised by microwave”.

Hard-nosed scieence criticism aside, though, this experiment was a darned good one for a young person to devise and carry out, with some readily apparent results. Too bad this sort of scientific thinking isn’t more strongly encouraged earlier in a child’s school career.