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Do you mean you detect contamination by taste? Is MilliQ that pure?
by nsajko 12y ago
Do you mean you detect contamination by taste? Is MilliQ that pure?
- danieltillett 12y agoYes you can detect contamination in MilliQ by taste. I don’t know the threshold, but I do know that if it has a taste then the water is contaminated enough to ruin your experiments.
- wiredfool 12y agoAre the contaminants dangerous? Or just normal microbial flora that you'd get on kitchen glassware?
- danieltillett 12y agoNo they are not dangerous. Pathogens are adapted to living in nutrient rich environments (i.e. our bodies) where their problem is avoiding our immune system. The bacteria that can grow in MilliQ water are those adapted to living in low nutrient environments and these bacteria are always harmless - except that is to your experiments :)
- pcrh 12y agoCaulobacter vibroides
- lmm 12y agoWouldn't the very act of drinking it contaminate that source with bacteria from your lips?
- wlesieutre 12y agoI don't work in a lab, but I assume you'd pour it into a cup/beaker and drink out of that
- GotAnyMegadeth 12y agoDon't drink it directly out of the container...