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 * Question** - Will magnetic radiation affect the size or growth of a normal radish plant and if so, how much will it affect it or how might the radiation harm the plant?

 ( []) The radish plants that I am going to grow usually get up to " 12 to 18 inches long and 2 inches in diameter. Winter radishes take between 45 and 70 days to reach harvest, depending on the variety." Because I am only growing for a couple of weeks I will not get these same results.
 * Purpose**- In what kind of environment do plants thrive and grow the most superior in? I am doing this experiment to determine the best way to grow plants, I am doing this because I want to find out how to grow a plant larger and faster with nearly the same amount of materials. I already know that many plants grow best in sunlight and with plenty of water conditions. I also know that at the normal rate that plants grow it can take weeks to get the plant to its full normal conditions.


 * Background ** - I am testing to see if 60Hz and 30Hz of a magnetic field increases the growth rate of a plant. I am interested in this project because it sounds fun to do and it might help people grow plants faster. The plant that I will be testing this on is a radish plant which is a common plant to in the United States. I chose the radish plant because it is a fairly easy plant to grow. I know this because earlier in the year we did an experiment with radish plants in Mr. Kerwin's class. Other plants that I considered doing were tomato plants, sunflower plants, and a few other plants that would be fairly simple to grow and didn't need much attention.

**Method**- All three plants Will be exposed to the same amount of sunlight and the same weather conditions but two of them will be exposed to magnetic radiation, the exposure will be 60Hz of magnetic radiation and 30Hz of Magnetic radiation, The third plant will be the control and will not have any exposure to magnetic radiation. This experiment idea came from ysJournal.com, and eHow.com.

**Procedure-** To start the experiment I went to my local farmers market and picked up a bag of radish plants, three regular plant pots that were about 6 inches in diameter, as these were plenty enough for the radish plants to grow in. Mr. Kerwin provided the water and the sunlight, and all I had to do was make sure that the plant received the same amount of radiation, water and sunlight each day. To measure the magnetic radiation I borrowed a device from one of the science teachers in the school which allowed me to hook up to a computer and give me an accurate telling of how many (Hz) of magnetic radiation were flowing at all times. The amount of water that each plant received was the same each and every day, which was about 30 mm of water. The sunlight was also the same, which was roughly around 8-9 hours per day. Because the magnetic radiation was produced by actual magnets and not electro-magnetic magnets, it had a steady pulse at all times of 30 and 60 Hz. This made it easy to control how much radiation the plants received and made it so I only had to study how much radiation was produced once.


 * Hypothesis: ** My hypothesis is that the magnetic radiation will hinder the growth of the plants instead of helping them grow, and that it will permanently affect the growth of the plant and that the plant would not be able to recover and gain full growing ability back even when the plant is removed from the magnetic radiation.

**Materials**:
 * Plant Pot
 * Magnets
 * Radish Seeds
 * Sunlight
 * Water

The first couple of days of the experiment there were few signs of life from the variable plants as they had not yet started to grow. The control plant however started on day four and continued to grow throughout the rest of the experiment. The variable groups however did not start growing and never did, which would bring me to the conclusion that I ended up getting. My hypothesis was correct in the fact that the magnetic radiation would kill the plants and that they would have harmful affects the would hinder their health and ultimately kill them.
 * Analysis**

**Current Results**- Below are the current results of the magnetic radiation and control groups. The magnetic Radiation is definitely hindering the growth of the plants.
 * Day, Growth (in.) || Plant 1 (Control) || Plant 2 (60Hz) || Plant 3 (30Hz) ||  ||
 * Day 1 || 0 || 0 || 0 ||
 * Day 2 || 0 || 0 || 0 ||
 * Day 3 || 0 || 0 || 0 ||
 * Day 4 || .1 || 0 || 0 ||
 * Day 5 || .2 || 0 || 0 ||
 * Day 6 || .4 || 0 || 0 ||
 * Day 7 || .4 || 0 || 0 ||
 * Day 8 || .4 || 0 || 0 ||
 * Day 9 || .5 || 0 || 0 ||
 * Day 10 || .6 || 0 || 0 ||
 * Day 11 || .6 || 0 || 0 ||
 * Day 12 || .6 || 0 || 0 ||
 * Day 13 || .8 || 0 || 0 ||

====**Summary and Conclusion-** Radiation definitely has a harmful impact on the growth of the radish plants, but the affected plants would be able to recover somewhat when the amount of radiation was reduced. My hypothesis was partially correct, because I thought that recovery was not possible after the exposure to radiation; however, I was right that radiation did cause very large amounts of damage to plants. ====
 * Limitations:** The limitations of this project were somewhat significant, first off over the weekends I had no way of watering the plants and did not know whether they were receiving the correct amount of sunlight (if any at all). These limitations could have affected the growth of the plants, especially over longer period weekends that we were not in school. Which could change my experiment results and skewer the data. This is a fairly large limitation that could not really be changed or avoided due to the fact that the plants were kept at school for the entire course of this experiment. The next limitation was the amount of time that I had to care for the plants each day which was only a total of about 5-6 minutes each day, this is not a very long period of time considering that I had to make sure that the plants had the right growing conditions and that they didn't have spoiled seeds. Other than those few limitations everything else worked just fine in this experiment.

**Works Cited**

"How Tall Is the Average Radish Plant?" //Home Guides //. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Apr. 2013.

"Electromagnetic Radiation in Our Society Is Killing Plants and Trees." //Infowars Electromagnetic Radiation in Our Society Is Killing Plants and Trees Comments //. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Apr. 2013.

"Chapter 2: Electromagnetic Radiation: Friend and Foe." //Chapter 2: Electromagnetic Radiation: Friend and Foe //. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Apr. 2013.

"Website Joris Everaert." //Website Joris Everaert //. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Apr. 2013.

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