水在FTIR的檢測中，O-H鍵在1640cm-1是做彎曲的運動。接近石墨烯產生的遠紅外線(6.3 μm的波長或波數1587cm-1)。預期照射遠紅外線可讓O-H鍵共振，產生物理和化學現象的差異，以此作為本研究綠茶萃取和線蟲生長之實驗。
照射遠紅外線的水對於綠茶萃取析出量都有提高，冷泡在25度C泡1小時，多酚含量增加19.30%，自由基清除率增加19.01%，咖啡因含量7.59%。相較之下，熱泡在80度C泡1分鐘，多酚含量增加15.22%，自由基清除沒增加，咖啡因含量19.87%，而熱泡所需的時間比冷泡時間少就能有明顯差異。使用遠紅外線照射的水餵食，生長在25度C培養箱中的線蟲明顯實驗組比對照組壽命增加16.4%，平均長度增長8.42%。

Water molecules show a characteristic O-H bond bending peak at 1640 cm-1 in FTIR spectrum, which is close to the far infrared ray generated by graphene (wavelength of 6.3 μm, or wavenumber 1587 cm-1). It is thus expected that the far infrared ray irradiation can cause the resonance of the O-H bond, which can possibly cause the differences in various physical and chemical phenomena. In this study, the effects of far infrared irradiated water on the extraction of ingredients from green tea and the growth of Caenorhabditis elegans are studied.
It was found that irradiation of the far infrared ray at 25 ° C for 1 hour on water caused the increases of extraction rates of polyphenol, free radical scavenging rate, and caffeine by 19.3%、19.0% and 7.6%, respectively. In comparison, soaking the green tea in hot water at 80 ° C for 1 min resulted in the increased extraction rates of polyphenol, free radical scavenging rate, and caffeine increased by 15.2%、0% and 19.9%, respectively. Fed with far infrared irradiated water, the life of Caenorhabditis elegans in the 25 °C incubator significantly increased by 16.4% and their average length increased by 8.4 %.

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