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I'll just remark that for water, I do want to drink a pure chemical, possibly with a little bit of minerals in, if it can't be helped.
by anon4 11y ago
I'll just remark that for water, I do want to drink a pure chemical, possibly with a little bit of minerals in, if it can't be helped.
- LoSboccacc 11y agoI hope you dont mean pure h2o because that's dangerous.
- polymatter 11y agoI am very curious about your comment. how is pure h20 dangerous?
- jsprogrammer 11y agoH2O is highly caustic.
- noobermin 11y agoH2O is acidic, producing a significant concentration of H+ ions (arguably, the strongest reducing agent) at a concentration of 7 pH, or equivalently, 10^16 ions per liter of water!
- jsprogrammer 11y agoRight, so why did I get downvoted?
- noobermin 11y agoPerhaps some people can't take a joke. FWIW, I upvoted you.
- cpfohl 11y agoDistilled water (pure) has such a low mineral/salt level that it pulls important salts out of your cells. Your body is mostly water, but it's mostly salty water.
- dsr_ 11y agoWell... not while eating a healthy diet. Total dissolved solids must be under 500mg/L in US drinking water supplies, and the highly regarded NYC water system delivers water with less than 50mg/L of total dissolved solids. Most of that is sodium chloride, calcium chloride and magnesium sulfate, classic tasty salts... all of which are readily available in foods. See http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/pdf/wsstate13.pdf http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/pdf/wsstate13.pdf for the 2013 water quality report; see table 1. If you got distilled water instead, you'd notice the taste, but there wouldn't be a health problem.
- eru 11y agoNot really. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distilled_water#Drinking_distilled_water https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distilled_water#Drinking_disti...
- partiallypro 11y agoDistilled water is not "pure H2O." If I'm not mistaken there is only a few facilities in the world that can make pure H2O. Pure H2O has no flavor and will kill you if you drink too much of it. Distilled water or reverse osmosis machines only remove -most- things from water. I believe there is an episode on National Geographic channel from the show "Going Deep With David Rees" where he visits a lab that makes Pure H20. He is only allowed to sip it. The episode was about creating ice without impurities. (it was found that pure H2O is not necessary to creating perfect ice, not is it made for human consumption.)
- eru 11y ago> [...] and will kill you if you drink too much of it. Only if you don't eat anything at all with it.
- laurencerowe 11y agoThose little minerals are important. Purified water will pull minerals out of your system through osmotic pressure. http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/nutrientschap12.pdf http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/nutrientschap...
- eru 11y agoJust eat something with it. Anything.
- plorg 11y agoIs this really true? Do you only drink pure de-ionized or distilled water? It is certainly important for some applications, but I don't know many people who find it palatable on its own. Pretty much any water you buy or get from your tap has minerals in it, and often they are beneficial to your health.
- api_or_ipa 11y agodistilled water is pretty bad tasting, IMO. You can get it from pretty much any grocery store. I think you'll prefer good mineralized water. Moreover, I find the local tap water (Vancouver BC) to be above and beyond any bottled water I've ever had.