This topic is drifting off to sea... where big boats like cruiseships, subs, aircraft carriers, and such distill seawater for drinking purposes.

Once heard of a Doublecab with a Wasserboxer doing double duty on a US carrier. I'll bet it used distiller water since that was what they had on tap on the boat.;-)

BenT

On Oct 16, 2010, at 6:24 PM, craig cowan <phishman068@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> 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
>> 
>> 
>>