Does anyone know how distilled water is made?!
Does anyone know how distilled water is made?
When purchasing bottled water, there are several types to choose from: Purified, Spring, drinking, and distilled? I buy the distilled because it seems to taste better. But I wonder how it is made and can it be made at home? Can you help?
Answers:
It is best not to drink distilled water. Why?
Distillation is the process in which water is boiled, evaporated and the vapour condensed. Distilled water is free of dissolved minerals and, because of this, has the special property of being able to actively absorb toxic substances from the body and eliminate them. Studies validate the benefits of drinking distilled water when one is seeking to cleanse or detoxify the system for short periods of time (a few weeks at a time). Fasting using distilled water can be dangerous because of the rapid loss of electrolytes (sodium, potassium, chloride) and trace minerals like magnesium, deficiencies of which can cause heart beat irregularities and high blood pressure. Cooking foods in distilled water pulls the minerals out of them and lowers their nutrient value.
Distilled water is an active absorber and when it comes into contact with air, it absorbs carbon dioxide, making it acidic. The more distilled water a person drinks, the higher the body acidity becomes. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Distilled water, being essentially mineral-free, is very aggressive, in that it tends to dissolve substances with which it is in contact. Notably, carbon dioxide from the air is rapidly absorbed, making the water acidic and even more aggressive. Many metals are dissolved by distilled water."
The most toxic commercial beverages that people consume (i.e. cola beverages and other soft drinks) are made from distilled water. Studies have consistently shown that heavy consumers of soft drinks (with or without sugar) spill huge amounts of calcium, magnesium and other trace minerals into the urine. The more mineral loss, the greater the risk for osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, hypothyroidism, coronary artery disease, high blood pressure and a long list of degenerative diseases generally associated with premature aging.
A growing number of health care practitioners and scientists from around the world have been advocating the theory that aging and disease is the direct result of the accumulation of acid waste products in the body.
There is a great deal of scientific documentation that supports such a theory. A poor diet may be partially to blame for the waste accumulation. Meats, sugar, white flour products, fried foods, soft drinks, processed foods, alcohol, dairy products and other junk foods cause the body to become more acidic. Stress, whether mental or physical can lead to acid deposits in the body.
There is a correlation between the consumption of soft water (distilled water is extremely soft) and the incidence of cardiovascular disease. Cells, tissues and organs do not like to be dipped in acid and will do anything to buffer this acidity including the removal of minerals from the skeleton and the manufacture of bicarbonate in the blood.
The longer one drinks distilled water, the more likely the development of mineral deficiencies and an acid state.
Source(s):
http://chetday.com/distilledwater.htm...
It's made by boiling water and then capturing the condensing water vapors.
I think that distilled is evaporated alot of times and impurities are left behind.
Purified can pass through many filters.
spring water comes from an actual spring so they say, and drinking water is just from the tap?
They take water and distill it! Floow the link
Distilled water tastes best because it is pure water. It is made by the process of distillation:
Water is boiled, the steam is collected and condensed.
Imagine collecting the steam that comes off of your tea kettle...all of the contaminants are left in the teapot and the pure water is in the steam.
You can buy large distillation columns from Lab Safety Supply or Fischer Scientific. Be careful...you may be tagged for having a meth lab.
Distilled is the cleanest you can get. It is boiled until there us no minerals or anything else left.
purified is second cleanest. almost all minerals are taken out
spring is third
the rest is alot dirtyer
anyway, I am not sure I do not think you can make distilled water at home.
Distilled water is the vapor left after boiling it. It does have a cleaner taste because all of the impurities have been removed . This process is widely used to make booze to allow the tru alcohol to permeate. (i.e. chlorine is removed}.
It is evaporated cooled and turns back into water, Kind on in the same way liquor is made.
distiled water is made by boiling the water and re-condensing the steam into a clean container, leaving most contaminants behind.