It was a liter, we took it from the DI jug in a chem lab.
It did not end well.....
The doctor said that is what did it.

Supposedly if you put a goldfish in DI water, it gets very thin very fast as
the water strips it's body of minerals.
I'm not that cruel....
I'll stick to roommates.

-Craig

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 9:21 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:

> At 08:00 PM 10/16/2010  -0400, craig cowan wrote:
>
>> I was under the impression (though mind you I am not much of a chemist)
>> that
>> DI water was actually quite reactive in some situations (Especially
>> organic).
>>
>
> Deionized water is what you use when you don't want to pay extra for
> distilled and can live with the various stuff that deionizing does not
> remove.  This seems to be a pretty good overview of purified water of
> various ilken.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purified_water
>
>
>   I know if you drink a cup of DI water, you will become severely
>> sick as it actively tries to fill it'sself back up with minerals and
>> nutrients, which it will rob from your body. (Experimentation has proven
>> this. I'm very cruel sometimes to roommates....).
>>
>
> I suspect that the water you used must have been bacterially contaminated.
>  DI water (or distilled) may not be the best thing to drink over the long
> term, but a cup (or a gallon) shouldn't do you any harm at all.  I've known
> a few people on a certain fringe who've drunk nothing but distilled water
> (from their own still) for years with no apparent ill effect.
>
>
>  Anyway, I was under the impression that similar reactivity would occur on
>> metals. It may not be a conductor, but it is actively trying to dissolve
>> things. Much more so than a solvent that is already at capacity (IE Tap
>> water full of random crap).
>>
>
> In a cooling system purified water inhibits scale formation.  The
> antifreeze mix suppresses corrosion.
>
> Yours,
> David
>
>
>