Silencer Posted December 17, 2004 Posted December 17, 2004 I need to purify some water, but I don't have one of those fancy moonshiner gadgets. I was wondering what you guys use to distill things. Would a clean cup-at-a-time coffee maker distill the water well, since it heats the water to steam which then condenses and drips through your coffee?
budullewraagh Posted December 17, 2004 Posted December 17, 2004 i suppose that could work. a simple way of doing it would be to just boil some water in a container with a makeshift top that filters all the gas evolved into a tube leading to another sealed beaker surrounded with ice
Gilded Posted December 17, 2004 Posted December 17, 2004 "a simple way of doing it would be to just boil some water in a container with a makeshift top that filters all the gas evolved into a tube leading to another sealed beaker surrounded with ice" Yeah, this method is especially good in winter time. Unless you live in a hot country, that is.
budullewraagh Posted December 17, 2004 Posted December 17, 2004 haha yeah northeastern united states!
YT2095 Posted December 17, 2004 Posted December 17, 2004 why not just go to a petrol/Gas station and buy a bottle Battery topup water, it`s as pure as it gets and costs very little
Gilded Posted December 17, 2004 Posted December 17, 2004 Ahh, I just looked at a bottle one day. Is it just H2O all the way, and de-ionized etc. etc.?
YT2095 Posted December 17, 2004 Posted December 17, 2004 yup, pure H2O I used to go into petrol stations and buy the stuff to drink when I went on long walks (sometimes days on end). it`s just PURE water, nothing else, although you DO get strange looks whilst drinking it from some folks that actualy think it`s Battery Acid! LOL )
Gilded Posted December 17, 2004 Posted December 17, 2004 "although you DO get strange looks whilst drinking it from some folks that actualy think it`s Battery Acid! LOL )" You didn't bother putting it into another container? And no wonder, when I looked at it, I just saw it had something to do with batteries, and thought I had finally found even some kind of source of sulfuric acid, but no. Pure water is good for experiments too though, it's just not going to corrode pine tables or anything.
YT2095 Posted December 17, 2004 Posted December 17, 2004 no I didn`t bother puting it in another bottle, I just drank it whilst walking down the road on many an occasion. oh yeah! you`ll not be allowed into Night clubs or Raves with it either! talk about un-educated grunts serving the door! (
Gilded Posted December 17, 2004 Posted December 17, 2004 I can imagine the look on people's faces when they see someone drinking from a container which is the type one might normally keep motor oil/similar in. - Oh dear Richard, there goes that awful motor oil drinking man from Birmingham! - Yeah, let's call an ambulance.
Gilded Posted December 17, 2004 Posted December 17, 2004 Hey, have you ever tried to make money with it, like "If you give me £5 I'll drink this", because people don't necessarily know it's just water.
YT2095 Posted December 17, 2004 Posted December 17, 2004 I`ve done it once with reagent grade HCl with my Lab colegues, I got more that a fiver though and I DID drink all 100ml of it CAPS LOCK ON... DO NOT! TRY THIS AT HOME , I KNEW WHAT I WAS DOING AND IT WAS PERFECTLY SAFE, MEASURED AND CALCULATED PRIOR TO THIS! they just didn`t know I`de worked it out prior
Leroy Posted December 17, 2004 Posted December 17, 2004 i was always told that water above certain purity is actually not healthy for you as it hardly contains any ions, which your body need. You promote osmosis as all the salt in your body want to contaminate the pure water you just drank therefore depleting cells of essential salts.
Gilded Posted December 17, 2004 Posted December 17, 2004 I remember tasting HCl too. An about 10% solution though, which is about the same as in your stomach. "i was always told that water above certain purity is actually not healthy for you as it hardly contains any ions, which your body need." Yeah, that's probably quite right. But if you're bacterophobic (or whatever the word is), you might want to drink the distilled water. :>
YT2095 Posted December 17, 2004 Posted December 17, 2004 Pure water isn`t BAD for you, it`s just that water with Ions is better, that`s all nothing to fear about it, it`s NOT "Toxic", it`s just not Anything
jdurg Posted December 17, 2004 Posted December 17, 2004 Yes, but if you drink enough water of any kind you will deplete ions and vitamins from your body which will make you ill. (It will cause you to cramp up as you remove all the K+ ions). On a volume for volume basis, distilled water will accomplish this a bit quicker.
YT2095 Posted December 17, 2004 Posted December 17, 2004 Quantify "Enough water" ANYTHING in excess is BAD for you
Gilded Posted December 17, 2004 Posted December 17, 2004 "ANYTHING in excess is BAD for you :)" They used to even torture people by forcing them to drink water.
chadn Posted December 17, 2004 Posted December 17, 2004 They used to even torture people by forcing them to drink water. I can belief that, I've been forced to drink an entire cantine when I was already fully hydrated. About halfway through I was ready to puke.
jdurg Posted December 17, 2004 Posted December 17, 2004 That's why I always laugh at people who are working out or doing a lot of running and drinking gallons of water. Sure enough, a short while later they start getting a ton of muscle cramps because of all the water they've been drinking. lol.
chadn Posted December 17, 2004 Posted December 17, 2004 That's why I always laugh at people who are working out or doing a lot of running and drinking gallons of water. Sure enough, a short while later they start getting a ton of muscle cramps because of all the water they've been drinking. lol. Thats why I only drink enough water to wet my throat when working out.
Gilded Posted December 17, 2004 Posted December 17, 2004 I don't have that sort of problems as I never work out.
Silencer Posted December 17, 2004 Author Posted December 17, 2004 Alright, thanks for the purchasing idea. If you know any other ways I can do it at home, please share. I don't have any real lab equipment like beakers or tubes or anything though.
Silencer Posted December 18, 2004 Author Posted December 18, 2004 How pure do you think bottled water is? I'm definately going to check out YT's source though too.
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