What is distilled water?
Natural water usually contains a number of microscopic contaminants, along with dissolved minerals such as calcium and iron. One way to remove these elements from water is to boil it until it changes to steam, a process known as distillation. When this steam is allowed to cool down and condense into liquid form again, the result is a purified form called distilled water. Distilled water should ideally be nothing but hydrogen and oxygen molecules, with a PH level of 7 and no additional gases, minerals or contaminants. The distilling process relies on the principle that most solid materials found in water are heavier than the water molecules themselves. When water is heated in a distiller, any dissolved solids such as salt, bacteria, calcium or iron remain solid while the pure water converts to a much lighter steam and is drawn out for condensation. Distilled water has a noticeably bland taste because all of the minerals which give water its flavor have been removed. Distilled water is s
Distillation is water that has been turned into a vapor so that its impurities are left behind. Then, by condensing, it is turned back to pure water. In, nature, the sun evaporates water into the air, where it rises and is captured by clouds. With the colder temperatures of the clouds, the evaporated water (steam) is condensed back into water and it falls back onto the earth as pure rain water. With our distillers, we duplicate this process. In our distiller; water is evaporated, the steam is captured, leaving the impurities (bacteria, metals, lead, etc.) behind. The steam is then condensed and collected, giving us extremely pure water. High purity water quality should be monitored for two things. First, high purity water should be monitored by the level of total dissolved solids (TDS) in the water. In layman’s terms, one part per million total dissolved solids is equivalent to one milligram per liter of dissolved solids in the water. The U.S. Federal guidelines call for high purity wa
