What is distilled water?

Eric Fraser wrote:
> Is the water that comes out of a de-humidifier distilled?

yes it is distilled. But not very well. if you can get it back into the
air and de-humidified several times, then it will be better distilled.
Which is how a still works sort of.


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Thank you,


CL Gilbert
"Then said I, Wisdom [is] better than strength: nevertheless the poor
man's wisdom [is] despised, and his words are not heard." Ecclesiastes 9:16

CL (dnoyeB) Gilbert wrote:

> Eric Fraser wrote:
>
>> Is the water that comes out of a de-humidifier distilled?
>
>
> yes it is distilled. But not very well. if you can get it back into the
> air and de-humidified several times, then it will be better distilled.
> Which is how a still works sort of.

I've worked at a couple of places where an Innowave distilling
machine was leased. The first time, I swear the water tasted
like plastic and metal. I think it was a new machine, and the
taste of the new materials was probably leaching into the water.

The one at my current workplace tastes just fine. It's cheaper
than the bottled water that used to be delivered. Sometimes
people forget to drain the boiler tank when a light goes on.
It stops distilling at that point. The stuff that comes out
of the boiler drain is a deep yellow color similar to another
common yellow liquid.

I've actually used a small amount of this distilled water to
top off my coolant overflow tank.

I put melted snow in my battery.

"CL (dnoyeB) Gilbert" > wrote in message
...
> Eric Fraser wrote:
> > Is the water that comes out of a de-humidifier distilled?
>
> yes it is distilled. But not very well. if you can get it back into the
> air and de-humidified several times, then it will be better distilled.
> Which is how a still works sort of.


Nope, again.

'Getting it back into the air and de-humidified several times'
is mumbojumbo.

Now, you may KNOW what you wanted to say, but you sure
as heck didnt manage to say it.

wrote:
> "CL (dnoyeB) Gilbert" > wrote in message
> ...
>
>>Eric Fraser wrote:
>>
>>>Is the water that comes out of a de-humidifier distilled?
>>
>>yes it is distilled. But not very well. if you can get it back into the
>>air and de-humidified several times, then it will be better distilled.
>>Which is how a still works sort of.
>
>
>
> Nope, again.
>
> 'Getting it back into the air and de-humidified several times'
> is mumbojumbo.
>
> Now, you may KNOW what you wanted to say, but you sure
> as heck didnt manage to say it.
>
>

Yea yea yea, dehumidifer, evaporator, whats the difference? Just trying
to stick to the tools introudced to answer the question as best as possible.

--
Thank you,


CL Gilbert
"Then said I, Wisdom [is] better than strength: nevertheless the poor
man's wisdom [is] despised, and his words are not heard." Ecclesiastes 9:16

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, CL (dnoyeB) Gilbert wrote:

> Yea yea yea, dehumidifer, evaporator, whats the difference?

Well, one is a dehumidifier. The other is an evaporator. Similar, but
different.

> Just trying to stick to the tools introudced to answer the question as
> best as possible.

They don't grant EE degrees like the one you claim to have unless you have
a grownup level of literacy.

What else are you lying about?

Daniel J. Stern wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, CL (dnoyeB) Gilbert wrote:
>
>> Yea yea yea, dehumidifer, evaporator, whats the difference?
>
>
> Well, one is a dehumidifier. The other is an evaporator. Similar, but
> different.
>
>> Just trying to stick to the tools introudced to answer the question as
>> best as possible.
>
>
> They don't grant EE degrees like the one you claim to have unless you
> have a grownup level of literacy.

I dunno. Some of my foreign teaching/lab assistants at UC Berkeley
couldn't easily converse in English. Primarily the ones from China.
The TAs from India were fine except some had very thick accents.

CL (dnoyeB) Gilbert wrote:
>
> Eric Fraser wrote:
> > Is the water that comes out of a de-humidifier distilled?
>
> yes it is distilled. But not very well. if you can get it back into the
> air and de-humidified several times, then it will be better distilled.
> Which is how a still works sort of.

I don't quite understand what you mean.
Be careful of the Legionnaire's Disease in the dehumidifier.

"CL (dnoyeB) Gilbert" > wrote in message
...
> Eric Fraser wrote:
> > Is the water that comes out of a de-humidifier distilled?
>
> yes it is distilled. But not very well. if you can get it back into the
> air and de-humidified several times, then it will be better distilled.
> Which is how a still works sort of.

Water which has been condensed from the vapor in air, as in a
dehumidifier, is basically the same as distilled water as far as soluble
mineral salts are concerned.

This water will be saturated with gases such as CO2, oxygen, nitrogen,
etc in equilibrium with the air.

It can also be contaminated with dust and other particulate matter from the
air unless special care is taken to exclude it, and it may also become
contaminated with metal ions from the heat exchange surfaces in the
dehumidifier.

SO, it won't be pristine conductivity grade water, but it will be purer
than dipping in out of a creek.

«» wrote:
> CL (dnoyeB) Gilbert wrote:
> >
> > Eric Fraser wrote:
> > > Is the water that comes out of a de-humidifier distilled?
> >
> > yes it is distilled. But not very well. if you can get it back into the
> > air and de-humidified several times, then it will be better distilled.
> > Which is how a still works sort of.
>
> I don't quite understand what you mean.
> Be careful of the Legionnaire's Disease in the dehumidifier.

I remember some building in Richmond, California that had an
outbreak of Legionnaire's. It was growing in the HVAC system.
The solution was to wipe the system components thoroughly
with Cascade diswashing detergent, which at the time contained
chlorine bleach. At this time, they'd probably uses straight bleach
or some other disinfecting product.