If water is boiled to thousands of degrees hot, could there still be something in it you should not drink?!
Answers: there is this, hot spring around cuba and I was windering, I mean cause it's heated really hot and all, and after it cools down could it be drinkable?
Sure - heat only kills microrganisms - there could be other nasty pollutants that could survive the heat.
Though how you'd get water to "thousands of degrees" when it boils at 100 degrees under normal circumstances is a bit of a conundrum.
Yes, there are types bacteria can live in heated waters, they live deep, deep in the ocean, where no sunlight hits, and those heated waters are the only source of energy.
there would be no water, it would all have boiled away.
that's probably the best time to drink it. the heat has destroyed the parasites and bacteria in the water making it safe and pure to drink.
If you boil it for 20 minutes, it is drinkable. You can not boil it to thousands of degrees hot.
strain and filter it get it tested.
Actually, in the pharmaceutical industry, water for injection is heated to roughly 300 plus degrees. No, this water is devoid of any contaminents - only problem is, if you drink it.....it will remove nutrients from your body rather than be good for you.
Great question though!
I wouldn't trust drinking it only because it's in cuba. i think if you did boil water that hot and cooled it it would be drinkable but what about the container it's in and other factors like that?
sure, it could make you sick, but so can tap water. in fact, a little bacteria might even be good for you.
no.
ya if you want get get sick
I always thought that if you boiled the water it would be safe to drink. But I could be wrong.
once water reaches BOILING point, it is no longer water but turns to STEAM so cannot be heated to THOUSANDS of degrees hot. Bacteria will be killed by the heat, but if there is a CONTAMINATION in the water, like dirt or metalic particles, NO amount of heat will destroy it.
Lots of that heat can be caused by underground contact with volcanic residuals. It is probably a hot sulfur hot spring and could be full of very toxic material.
No.
There are a number of bacteria and algae that thrive in hot springs - as well as fish and other critters. The water can also contain poisonous minerals and powerful acids.
By the way, hot springs are only a few hundred degrees hot.
So long as it is only thousands of degrees hot, certain super microbes can still breed and become Trailer park trash.............
Heat will only kill bacteria; 160F is enough.
It does nothing for chemical contents, may even make worse.
not necessarily. if it had chemicals in it that wouldnt react but are deadly, they may be heated and cooled down again too. e.g. if there was sulphur in it, there would be traces of it in the water after heating.
Water becomes vapor or steam as it boils at 212 degrees F or 100 degrees C. The vapor or steam is pure and can be gathered by a process called distillation. Hot Springs generally contain minerals and other sediments from the ground that could cause the water to be unpotable (unfit for consumption) unless it is purified somehow.
Boiling water will get rid of bacteria and other parasites in water but it won't help get rid of minerals or sediment. Distillation would then be the easiest purification method.
Uuuhhhh. The boiling point of water is 212 degrees farenheit or 100 degrees centigrade... If you raise the temperature of water above that it's no longer water... it's steam! AND here's something for you to think about with respect to your hot spring. There are usually toxic chemicals from dissolved volcanic minerals in hot springs water. BUT.. if you want to drink it go right ahead.
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Yes, there could be minerals, sediment and possibly chemicals in it...and they can harm you.
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No, it you probably shouldn't drink it when it cools down.