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The interaction of tourmaline mineral powders with de-ionized water and seawater and the inhibiting growth activity of marine bacteria and diatoms were investigated. The results show that negative ion release rate of tourmaline powders are somewhat reduced immersing in seawater for 24h. When tourmaline powders is added into de-ionized water or seawater, electric conductivity of the de-ionized water is increased with time under the static state, their pH tend to be 7, solution oxygen of de-ionized water keeps to be about 139% of the initial 4.9mg/L and solution oxygen of seawater tends to be its initial value under stirring. For the capability of inhibiting the growth activity of marine bacteria and diatom, lithium tourmaline is the strongest in the three type of tourmaline powders with similar size, magnesium tourmaline is slightly lower than lithium tourmaline, but iron tourmaline is extremely lower than the other two types. The capability of inhibiting the microbe activity increases with reducing the size of tourmaline particles and adding the content of tourmaline powders. Tourmaline mineral materials are prospective to use as an additive to antifouling coatings from this work.
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Qi, Y., Zhang, Z., Li, W. (2013). Interaction of Tourmaline Mineral Powders with Sea Water and Its Anti-Microbial Properties. In: Marquis, F. (eds) Proceedings of the 8th Pacific Rim International Congress on Advanced Materials and Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48764-9_30
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