distilled water property

  • thebagleboy
    20th Aug 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    distilled (pure) water is slightly acidic
  • Simon
    20th Aug 2010 Administrator 0 Permalink
    Distilled water may only be acidic because of dissolved Carbon Dioxide, this is not something that needs changing in the game.
  • Felix
    20th Aug 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    But that would be more realistic!!
  • zc00gii
    20th Aug 2010 Banned 0 Permalink
    This post is hidden because the user is banned
  • thebagleboy
    20th Aug 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    actually pure water (H2O) is slightly acidic because of the H2
  • triclops200
    20th Aug 2010 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    actually, no. H2O is not acidic because it is covelent, not ionic like H2SO4 (Sulfiric acid). when H2O acidifies it makes a H3O group and a OH (Hydroxide) group, in an equilibrium state. The H3O is actually what is acidic and the OH is basic.
  • ssc4k
    20th Aug 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    When things get that complicated, it's just TPT distilled water is fine as is for me :p
  • triclops200
    20th Aug 2010 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    same here
  • Rconover
    20th Aug 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    My face when people say things about chemistry and they are wrong:



    btw: You can remove the carbon dioxide in the water by reducing pressure.

    I bring my air tight container, put my class of distilled water in it, and then attach a vacuum machine that takes out as much air as it can to about 3% volume of air has removed, and at a certain pressure does the gas boil out.

    and after taking 100 grams of distilled water saturated with Carbon Dioxide at about .5 to 1 degree Celsius, I attach it to the vacuum and it boils out and it turns out my original 100g of distilled water is about 98g now and it lost 2 full grams of carbon dioxide.
  • triclops200
    20th Aug 2010 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    Rconover
    who are you talking to, because that is what we speant 4 weeks learnign last year in class.