Distilled water... BIG MISTAKE.
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I don't always drink distilled water, but when I do it's mostly ethanol and has been aged in barrels.0
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UsedToBeHusky wrote: »There are no chemicals in distilled water...
Yes, there are.0 -
I did not think it was possible to have this much misinformation packed in to so tight a place.
Oh, the irony..Distilled water is pure
No, it is not.Distilled water by definition is not contaminated by any "chemicals" to make it pure, because of how distillation works
If this were the case, it would be impossible to make vodka.0 -
Now i it was franctionated after distilliation, it might be pure. Really though, if I wanted pure water, I'd make it from hydrogen and oxygen.0
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So I'm confused....am I going to die or not? I don't have a will nor trust.0
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Cite your case Mr Knight.
Easy peasy with the Vodka. Alcohol boils at a different temperature. Set the distiller at a different temperature.
dbmata, that's funny. And explosive.0 -
If distilled is cheaper, I'll buy it for hurricane water. Otherwise, I have no use for it since we started being able to put regular water in irons.
Why do people buy it?0 -
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If I remember correctly, off the top of my head methanol becomes a gas at 158F, and ethanol at 170F. You could easily step heat through the temp range to produce a pure water, then redistill it to remove any missed adulterants.
That's a process I could do with home equipment. So how does it not work?
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If I remember correctly, off the top of my head methanol becomes a gas at 158F, and ethanol at 170F. You could easily step heat through the temp range to produce a pure water, then redistill it to remove any missed adulterants.
That's a process I could do with home equipment. So how does it not work?
Because temperatures are like BMI - they're an average of a large population. Any given substance will start boiling off before you get to its boiling point, and will have material left unboiled after you pass its boiling point.0 -
That only impacts loss in the system and distillate cross over from near temp compounds. Which can be reduced to almost nil by a secondary or tertiary distillation. Even on home equipment.0
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"almost nil" = not pure.
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SGM_Adonis wrote: »So I'm confused....am I going to die or not? I don't have a will nor trust.
Better get a living a will you never know when the time is coming!
For real.. Cooked water? I drank some not long ago I felt nothing.
Working on getting an online will drafted in case!
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Are you related to Miss Mamie and Miss Emily?
If I remember correctly, off the top of my head methanol becomes a gas at 158F, and ethanol at 170F. You could easily step heat through the temp range to produce a pure water, then redistill it to remove any missed adulterants.
That's a process I could do with home equipment. So how does it not work?
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Any given substance will start boiling off before you get to its boiling point, and will have material left unboiled after you pass its boiling point. - Mr Knight Uncited
Well that's the point, isn't it? The distillation comes from the vapour. The other materials are left behind.0 -
There is nothing wrong with drinking distilled water, other than there is no taste to distilled water because all the minerals have been removed. In fact, most bottled water is often just tap water, distilled to remove all the minerals and then certain minerals are added back in to give it the "clean taste" the customers want.
To those who are talking about the water in their chem lab, that's not distilled water, that's de-ionized water. Deionized water will have an acidic pH and will have no ions in it and therefore can be hazardous to drink.0 -
Oh God, the derp in this thread.0
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Jeez... thanks for the warning. I never thought of drinking distilled, but I would consider it from time to time since we water mom's orchid's with that (some sort of "if it's good for the plants it's good for us too" logic).0
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Are you related to Miss Mamie and Miss Emily?
If I remember correctly, off the top of my head methanol becomes a gas at 158F, and ethanol at 170F. You could easily step heat through the temp range to produce a pure water, then redistill it to remove any missed adulterants.
That's a process I could do with home equipment. So how does it not work?
No, since I'm assuming that would require me to be a southerner... what's is that in reference to?
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I have a strong feeling certain styles of beer, and a competent brewer( meaning not me) would be able to put it to good use for things like a decent pils0 -
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it wouldn't be harmful for most people, but it would be for some. i am at risk for drug toxicity if i don't take in plenty of salt and other minerals. seriously, i've experienced it and had to eat an emergency bag of chips (only thing handy). funny how something is great for some people, good for some, and dangerous for a few.0
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SGM_Adonis wrote: »So I'm confused....am I going to die or not?
Well, that depends on whether you are immortal or not?0 -
ORESETO thanks for the article and farfall for starting the subject. Learned something new on MFP once again.
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You learned something from this thread? man- I'm impressed.0
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I learned that vodka goes bad if you leave it open.0
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