Violet glass
Sunlight is one of the most important sources of human life on earth. Where there is a lot of light, there is also a lot of shadow: violet glass protects products and essences from the harmful rays of light ...
Funcionality
"Please store in the dark" - you may be familiar with this note. We often see it on the packaging of oils, herbs, cosmetics, medicines and many other foods.
What's it all about? First of all, it's obvious that it has something to do with sunlight. Sunlight is vital! The pioneer in light research, John Ott, sums up his findings in one sentence: "Light is life" Light can be found in our food and also in our cells. With the death of the plant, the animal and of course the human being, the light leaves the body. New text
The sun emits a visible and an invisible part of the light. The visible spectrum becomes perceptible to our eyes when white light is directed through a glass prism. At the same time, however, light also includes a component that is invisible to our eyes, which is in the range of the electromagnetic wavelengths of infrared and UV-A. New text
Sunlight enables all plants to grow. If these remain exposed to the sun after the ripening process has been completed, the effect of the light changes in the opposite direction and accelerates the molecular decomposition process. This loss of quality can be avoided and partially reversed.
In the violet glass, valuable contents are kept at their original level for a long time and optimally protected against weakening lichen flows. In addition, the violet glass has an invigorating and preserving effect.
In ancient cultures, noble essences and remedies were kept in golden or purple containers long before our time. Today, studies by the Swiss biologist Dr. H. Niggli that samples in violet glass have a significantly better storage quality and the lowest energy loss of all common packaging materials.
The dark purple color of the MIRON violet glass has been precisely determined in extensive studies. In order to achieve the optimum color shade, metal oxides are added to the glass mass as color pigments and melted. The glass is completely colored and not coated.
No other glass offers this combination of absolute light protection in the visible range and simultaneous permeability in the range of UV, violet and infrared radiation.
The Miron violet glass acts like a light filter. Brown or green glass, which does not have this effect and does not provide sufficient protection, is mostly used in retail.
Measurements of light transmission show that amber glass lets the visible light through and does not offer enough protection.
A similar picture emerges with the light transmission of green and blue glass.
MIRON violet glass blocks the entire spectrum of visible light with the exception of the violet component. At the same time, it offers the permeability of a certain proportion of radiation in the spectral range of UV-A and infrared light. This unique combination offers optimal protection against the aging processes that are triggered by visible light and thus enables the shelf life and effectiveness of products to be extended.
In order to prove these advantages, MIRON Violettglas AG has carried out a series of test procedures in cooperation with scientific institutions and in our own tests.
Test procedure
In recent years, various scientific test procedures have been carried out with almond oil, spirulina algae, rose water, drinking water, olive oil, grain, honey, various fruits and other substances about the protective effect of MIRON violet glass. Here are a few examples:
Storage test with chives
White, green and amber glass are permeable in the visible light spectrum and do not offer sufficient protection against the degradation processes induced by light. Various herbal and spice preparations were exposed to the sun for several hours a day or stored indoors in a 3-month storage experiment in different types of glass (white, brown, violet).
After 2 months, the quality was recorded photographically with the aid of visual changes and the change in odor was also determined in a blind test with human test persons. The figure shows the clear bleaching of chive samples stored in sunlight in brown and white glass. As photographed in this figure, the sample stored in MIRON violet glass shows no change in color. The smell of the chives stored in MIRON violet glass was clearly stronger and fresher.
Storage test with tomatoes
A microbiological experiment was carried out with cherry tomatoes in order to more easily underpin the optimal quality protection of the food stored in MIRON violet glass. In this experiment, a cherry tomato was stored in a white glass and a MIRON violet glass for seven months and stored at room temperature with direct sunlight. At the end of the seven months, the result was photographed. The microbiological changes in the tomato stored in white glass can be clearly seen. In contrast, tomatoes stored in MIRON violet glass show no loss of color and no traces of drying out.
Water crystals
The father of water crystal photography is Masaru Emoto, born on July 22, 1943 in Yokohama (Japan). When he realized that there are no two identical snow crystals, the idea occurred to him to use frozen water droplets and their photography to prove the quality of water. He commissioned a young researcher with the help of a high-resolution microscope to confirm this thesis. In the meantime, his crystal images have gone around the world. In his experience, water has a memory and reacts to treatments. Spring water forms beautiful, harmonious and filigree hexagons, while the water from the lower reaches of rivers hardly forms any crystals. In his work he points out that the imagery of water is diverse. The images, shapes and appearances resulting from the investigation are not reproducible, just as nature does not repeat itself. Conclusions about chemical, biological and physical qualities cannot be drawn with this method. But he too is of the opinion that the water crystal photos can reveal something about information and energetic content.
For our experiments, three different types of water were filled into pharmacist bottles with the glass types white, brown and purple. Short-term storage of 7 days and medium-term storage of 74 days were carried out. We would like to point out once again that the imagery of water is multidimensional and no scientific conclusions can be drawn.
From left to right: 7 or 74 days each in violet glass - amber glass - white glass
