Show me water without anything else dissolved in it.  That's not natural.
Also extremely hard to do.  Distilled water is close enough for everyday use
but not really pure.  Well, remembering my chemistry, water in it's natural
state is ionized.   So it's able to bond with whatever it comes in contact
with.  Having said that,        Water is called the "universal
solvent" because it dissolves more  substances than any other liquid.
This means that wherever water goes,  either through the ground or through our
bodies, it takes along valuable  chemicals, minerals, and nutrients.  from:
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/waterproperties.html
 Or do you not accept the US Geological Survey as sufficiently reliable?

Alistair Bell wrote:
> sorry, the subject was water, not acidic
or basic  solutions
>
>
> not splitting hairs, just
being accurate.
>
> "water is the universal
solvent"
>
> not water plus anything else.
>
>
> alistair
>
>
> On 24-Sep-10, at
10:07 AM, Mark Hineline wrote:
>
> Now we need to split
hairs. No one has said anything about the purity
> of the water. Water
in the real world tends to be acidic or basic.
> Mildly acid water
will do a number on calcium carbonate, which, the
> last time I
looked, is the primary component of limestone and marble.
> And
dolemite, if I remember my rocks.
>
>
> Mark
>
>

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