Re: Water filtration

John Rudiak (wizard@laplaza.org)
Thu, 18 Jun 1998 15:36:26 -0600

Art Chakalis wrote:
>
> On Tue, 16 Jun 1998 dkern@juno.com wrote:
>
> > BTW, can anyone explain to me the differences between distilled water,
> > deoinized water and filtered water?
> >
> > Thanks a lot!!
> >
> > David
>
> Distilled water is made by boiling water and then condensing the steam back
> into water again. It removes everything from the water except materials
> that have boiling points above that at which the still is operated at. In
> a practical sense, distillation is assumed to remove everything but
> organics with vapor pressures at or less than water.
>
Wouldn't it remove everything except those things which boil below what
the pot is running at? The lower boiling point things would go over
with the steam, the higher boiling stuff left in the pot?

John

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