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I am very curious about your comment. how is pure h20 dangerous?
by polymatter 11y ago
I 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.