I disagree that "most major cities" would qualify as "the acid rain portions
of the world". Many, many acres of lands and waters in otherwise pristine
country environments are being rapidly acidifyed by big city pollution
drifting far afield.

... It's the end of the world as we know (knew) it ...

JGS

----- Original Message -----
From: Matthew Pollard <poll7356@UIDAHO.EDU>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: source of free distilled water used to be Re: distilled water
?bad

> that sounds reasonable... at first i read it as a humdifier, which would
> be 100% wrong!  Another source of DI water- rain.  Rain is mostly pure-
> asuming you don't live in the acid rain portions of the world, like most
> major cities.
>
> Cheers
> matthew
>
>
> Matthew Pollard             http://www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356
> Dept. of Chemistry               http://www.chem.uidaho.edu
> University of Idaho                   http://www.uidaho.edu
>
> On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Sudhir Desai wrote:
>
> > i found that using the water from my dehumidifier in
> > my basement works excellent
> >
> > i had it checked out by a dude i know doing chemistry
> > at penn state last weekend, and he said it was good
> > stuff.
> >
> > my $.02 worth
> >
> > check y'all later
> >
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