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It seems that the water should be distilled, otherwise the process will not be as predictable as it is described ...


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So use distilled water.

Indeed, it's surprising they went with distilled water exactly for this reason.

The author of the submission mentions they use distilled water , presumably for this reason

I was expecting distilled water to be the most critical part but it was even mentioned.

Note that it's mostly distilled water you should worry about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_OXM4mr_i0 (Mythbusters exploring it)


I'm not sure whats normally done but I answered this above. You could distill it like normal water.

I never did understand this especially for distilled water

Or, you know, just draw water from an old well. Distilled water seems too clinical.

Need distilled water, luckily we were just making that.

Distilling the water won’t remove the chemical.

Distillation would work. Might be more efficient ways, I'm not sure.

I assume distilled water?

I use distilled water

A simple solution is using distilled water then, correct?

It’s apparently not true for very pure water.

Yes, that's the minerals in the water. Using distilled water prevents this.

I'm thinking demineralized water, of which distillation is several ways to produce it. The rub seems to be that it leeches minerals from both the body and distribution mechanisms (like metal piping)

Will water distillation work to remove contaminants and impurities?

Distillation isn't magic. It works because different materials have different boiling points. When it's salt and water it's really easy since the boiling points are totally different but when it's something like this we're talking about hundreds to thousands of possible compounds all in the same mixture (also, there might be different compounds each time because of the different materials), melted up together. I doubt it's purified.
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