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Curmudgeoness

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5. My understanding of distilled water

Fri Dec 23, 2011, 06:37 PM

Dec 2011

is that it is just the evaporate when water is boiled. It takes a lot of energy, since you have to have the water boiling to produce the steam. You then collect the steam by cooling and there you have it----water, and the rest is left behind. I remember doing this in a chemistry class with a few tubes, but like I said---lots of energy used.

I also do not know if it will work if the original water has volatile chemicals in it. Seems to me that some of those chemicals may evaporate with the steam and be collected.

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A water question [View all] quakerboy Dec 2011 OP

Well, with the proper equipment, nothing to it. Denninmi Dec 2011 #1

I don't know about distilled, but I have a Berkey Ruby the Liberal Dec 2011 #2

Love my Big Berkey! Melissa G Dec 2011 #3

Well - then get yerself busy and tell OP why we are in Ruby the Liberal Dec 2011 #4

I would not put dye and crud in my Berkey 'cuz then I'd have to scrub the ceramic filter. Melissa G Dec 2011 #7

The one I have has those big black filters, and I agree Ruby the Liberal Dec 2011 #8

It sounds like a neat filter quakerboy Dec 2011 #9

Ah. Misunderstood. Ruby the Liberal Dec 2011 #10

Thanks quakerboy Dec 2011 #11

My understanding of distilled water Curmudgeoness Dec 2011 #5

I had that same science class memory Melissa G Dec 2011 #6

This message was self-deleted by its author Tesha Dec 2011 #12

Here you go: How to Distill Water Using a Paint Can & Copper Tubing. Arkansas Granny Jan 2012 #13