Difference between distilled water and drinking wateR?

[jagec]

Originally posted by: Toastedlightly
Ever watch the mythbuster where they boiled distilled water? I believe the water was at ~250 or so, and they stuck a fork in it. MASSIVE release of energy caused boiling water to splash all over.

Just put a scratch in the bottom of your pan, and you solve THAT problem.

In the lab, you're supposed to scratch your test tubes before you boil anything in them.

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

thank you. someone that knows something about nutrition.

this is the most common comment i get when people see my water distiller. where you gettin your minerals.

wow. People actually ask that?

People are stupid.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: Toastedlightly
Ever watch the mythbuster where they boiled distilled water? I believe the water was at ~250 or so, and they stuck a fork in it. MASSIVE release of energy caused boiling water to splash all over.

Just put a scratch in the bottom of your pan, and you solve THAT problem.

In the lab, you're supposed to scratch your test tubes before you boil anything in them.

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

thank you. someone that knows something about nutrition.

this is the most common comment i get when people see my water distiller. where you gettin your minerals.

wow. People actually ask that?

People are stupid.

aye..otherwise it doesn;t havea surface for the bubbles to grab onto...

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: Wallydraigle
Distilled water has been evaporated and condensed in a still. Drinking wateR is for drinking.

You can drink distilled water. I use it mostly in my iron though. Used it for mixing baby formula also when my son was on formula after my wife stopped breast feeding.

 

[RaDragon]

Interesting post, newnameman.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
you can drink distilled water. MOST of the impurities are removed by distilling, not all of them.

There are certain things you can't remove with simple distillation, such as alcohol, although you can decrease its concentration.

Normally I'm not one to argue with a teacher, but if I remember my high school science courses, doesn't etho/metho/iso alcohol all boil around 80C? If so, it would all boil off before the water did, so you should be able to remove alcohol from water via distillation.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: ViRGE

Originally posted by: DrPizza
you can drink distilled water. MOST of the impurities are removed by distilling, not all of them.

There are certain things you can't remove with simple distillation, such as alcohol, although you can decrease its concentration.

Normally I'm not one to argue with a teacher, but if I remember my high school science courses, doesn't etho/metho/iso alcohol all boil around 80C? If so, it would all boil off before the water did, so you should be able to remove alcohol from water via distillation.

that's the problem: boiling a mixture isn't the same as boiling the individual components.

The problem with distilling is since water/ethanol exhibits an azeotrope, it gets really messy and you can't get anywhere near 100% separation.