What is the difference between drinking water and distilled water?
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Well, distilled water has been distilled, and regular water hasn't.  :D
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Yes. Alcohol is more volitile than water. It evaporates faster. So if you inhale it it goes directly into your blood stream. The concentration is no so great as drinking it but it does enter the blood faster--instantly. Sort of like somking pot or cigarettes.
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Actually, it depends...\n\nAll municipal water (if you get a water bill, it is municipal) is treated by your municipality with chlorine, and occasionally chloramines. With that said, chlorine is basically used to kill living organisms within in your water supply. Once you fill a glass, the chlorine will evaporate after about 3-5 days. Your water would not begin to develop bacteria until all of the chlorine in the water is evaporated. Now, if you are drinking chlorinated water, you might want to think about the carcinogens that are in it now more than a bacteria that may grow to a harmful level after you let it sit for about 3 months!\n\nIf you are talking about distilled water (NOT HEALTHY TO DRINK ANYWAY!) it can begin to develop bacteria within the first 48-72 hours just like any other beverage would.
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one is distillation & thee other is desalination
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The minerals and salts in the water dehydrates the body the more water you drink.
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The pH of distilled water is lower than we expect, because the CO2 from atmosphere dissolves in it, to form an acidic compound. These are the reactions that take place:\nCO2 + H2O ----------> H2CO3\nH2CO3 + H2O ----------> HCO3- + H3O+\nHCO3- + H2O ----------> CO3 2-  + H3O+\nThe ions H3O+ give an acidic character to the distilled water
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Simple. To avoid salt deposition on the cathode and anode. Simple tap water has many salts, whereas distilled water has a very less or negligible amount of salt. Answer is according to my logic. Need'nt be correct.
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no. Cooled steam is distilled water
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YOU WILL BECOME DEHYDRATED BECAUSE THE WATER IN COFFEE AND TEA HAS LOTS OF CAFFEINE IN IT WHICH DEHYDRATES YOU, YOU ACTUALLY HAVE TO DRINK more WATER THAN SOMEONE WHO DOESNT DRINK COFFEE.
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It's NOT.  There's a lot of myth and folklore, but little (if any) scientific basis behind this.  \n\nJust drink when you're thirsty.  Period.
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spring comes straight from the ground, purified has chemicals, sparkling gets into your body faster but has gas added like a sodastream, distilled means its been boiled which is the cheaper option. It depends whether you live in a hard or soft water area. Your best bet is to buy a filter like e.g. a britter etc you will be suprised when you need to change the filter , the crap that comes out of your tap. But as for your question spring water is the best as it has all the trace elements youre body needs. Beleive me. I'm a trathlete plumber.
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That is why I only trust on tap water from home with a system that would remove most or allchemicals and metals in the water. Others have bacteria and metals that make you become poisoned, damage your nerves or make you ill.
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Tap water evaporates as it sits around.  The additives become more concentrated as the water evaporates but they don't dissipate.  Eventually they "precipitate" as salts and end up as solids in the container.
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Deionized water (known as "DI water" in labs) is used in chemical analysis.  When performing analytical chemistry, you don't want your water contaminated with the typical minerals you find in drinking water.  You just want pure H2O.
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Distillation is a method used to seperate substanced based on their boiling points.\n\nIf you have a mixture of say....water and sand, one way to seperate them would be to evaporate away the water, leaving the dry sand behind.  This also works for other things, like a solution of water and alcohol.  Since alcohol has a lower boiling point (meaning that it has a higher vapor pressure at a given temperature than water), it will evaporate quicker than water when you heat the solution.\n\nWhen you lower the pressure above a liquid, the liquid boils at a lower temperature.  A liquid will boil when its vapor pressure eqauls the pressure above the liquid, so if you lower pressure, you lower its boiling point.\nWhen you lower the pressure substancially (like with a vacuum) liquids will boil much easier (some even at room temperature), meaning that you do not have to heat them up quite as much in order to boil them.
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Heavy water is based on Deuterium rather than hydrogen. The only difference between H and D is that H only has a proton in the nucleus, whereas D has a proton and a neutron. That makes it interesting in nucelar science.\n\nHard water and soft water refer to drinking water and indicate how much dissolved solids there are in the water. All water has some dissolved salts (pure water is very corrosive, almost like acid). Soft water is where you can boil a kettle and not worry about having a white deposit appear ; it has a very low salt content. \n\nHard water is pretty saturated in Mg and Ca salts particularly and will leave that white "calc" anywhere you heat it up (kettles, washing machines, whatever really. \n\nIt usually depends where the water comes from. If it comes fairly directly from gathered rainfall to a reservoir, its usually soft. If it come from a well or a spring, its usually hard. \n\nIt come in all stages in between as well, but we don't really have a grey scale here. If it leavces a white deposit in you kettle, its hard, if it doesnt its soft. Some plaves have very hard water (east coast of Spain for example) where in some places you need to clean thre kettle pretty much every week.
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Distilled water isn't very good for you, but you could drink it.\n\nPer Wikipedia.org: "The drinking of distilled water has been both advocated and discouraged for health reasons. Advocates argue that drinking water in its pure form acts as a more powerful solvent that helps cleanse toxins from the body. Detractors argue that it robs the body of essential minerals in this way and also deprives it of minerals normally acquired from drinking water. Neither argument has a sound basis in chemistry or biology."