where do i buy distilled water?

[thelastmccabe]

I haven't even heard the word distilled water since chemistry in like 10th grade. What kinds of stores sell it? It must be obvious because I couldn't find anyone else who has asked this. Should i just go look at every brand of bottled water at the grocery store until I find one that was distilled instead of filtered? I've gathered that its pretty important to NOT use tap water for liquid cooling systems. Thanks.

 

[ranmao]

Just about every grocery store or drug store should have it, and it will say specifically that it's distilled water on the label.

 

[Sunrise089]

Just go to your local supermarket and buy some - normally its written very plainly on the label, they often use a different color or such thing.

 

[Porter21]

Label
Reads:
Distilled Water

 

[harobikes333]

yup. Its at all walmarts lol

 

[Zepper]

WalMart has it the cheapest around here at 68 cents a gallon.

.bh.

 

[ChefJoe]

bah, what a bunch of crap. the stuff you buy in supermarkets will be filtered... spring water is by reverse osmosis filtering. I don't think anyone commercially distills water for supermarkets and most people just don't notice. I'd say go ahead and use some of the reverse osmosis filtered water for your purposes... it shouldn't be too metalic. If you want distilled water, you can do it yourself by boiling some water and then cooling the water vapor/steam with a bag of ice. Collect what water collects on the bag and you've done a distillation. I'm betting you could rig something by hanging a ziplock bag of ice over a water collection bowl.

<-- chemist, working at a university, where people don't seem to say or know our distilled water taps in the lab are actually reverse osmosis filtered

 

[JEDIYoda]

http://www.distilledwater.com/

 

[Zap]

We get distilled water from our local Woodmans supermarket for 59¢ a gallon. Label reads "steam distilled water."

 

[Zepper]

Yup, my WalMart jug says processed by steam distillation. Of course it will have some plasticizer in it from being stored in a plastic jug, but other than that it should be more than adequate for anything less than quantitative analysis.

.bh.