Distilled water?

[an-art-worker.livejournal.com]

I have a project that calls for distilled water. Does anyone know where I can get that around here? (from googling it seems like distilled water is different from the various bottled waters one can buy everywhere).

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[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

go to the supermarket and buy the plastic jug that says 'distilled.'

i used to use this for healing piercings and also for water in fish/frog tanks, and never had a problem finding it.

[syntheticnature.livejournal.com]

CVS, Shaw's, RiteAid, Whole Foods.... Poland Springs makes a distilled water. Look for gallon bottles with, I think, a blue stripe on the label saying "distilled water." In supermarkets it's with the other bottled water. In pharmacies it might be with the eye care supplies or something (older versions of contact lens care needed it, I think).

doh!

[an-art-worker.livejournal.com]

I guess distilled water is a vanilla standard thing- whoops. Tx for the replies.

Re: doh!

[overstim.livejournal.com]

no no, youre right that distilled water IS different than spring water and the other stuff... but you can still find it in most supermarkets.

Re: doh!

[shaggy-man.livejournal.com]

Specifically, distilled water has little or none of the mineral and particulate content that water normally has. It's just H2O. You get it by boiling water and cooling the steam.

In case you were wondering.

Re: doh!

[srakkt.livejournal.com]

"You get it by boiling water and cooling the steam." You know, distilling it. ;)

Re: doh!

[shaggy-man.livejournal.com]

The very process by which we purify alcohol from stuff like wine and grain mash. But I digress.

[firepail.livejournal.com]

so what's your project? ironing? ;)

(that's what I use it for)

[an-art-worker.livejournal.com]

Egg tempera painting. I've always just used plain tap water but all the recipes call for distilled so I figured I would start following the instructions.

[solarpanda.livejournal.com]

Umm, should I stop using tap water for ironing?

[moocow1985.livejournal.com]

The minerals and other stuff can gunk up the inside of your iron.

distilled water isn't always required

[davelew.livejournal.com]

There's a huge variation in the mineral content of tap water throughout the USA, and New England water has some of the lowest mineral content in the country. Sometimes, direction call for distilled water because a process or product won't work with super hard water from, say, certain parts of Texas.

According to the last report I got from the MWRA, our water has about 7 mg/l of calcium and magnesium. On the other hand, more than 80% of America has "hard" water which is defined as more than 80 mg/l. As far as I know, the "hardest" water in the USA (hard = most mineral content) comes from some streams in Texas with more than 1000 mg/l of calcium and magnesium. So MWRA water is a lot closer to distilled water than to the average tapwater in America.