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Why does distilled water taste like shit?

>> No.4721428

No salt.

>> No.4721439

They probably used too much heat and burnt it during the distillation. Find some expensive distilled water that isnt burnt and it tastes pretty good.

>> No.4721453

no fluoride

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>>4721439
>burned water

>> No.4721570

>>4721468
I LOL'd at the file name. Also, guy he's replying to, any temperature hot enough to boil the water should mean any extra stuff isn't carried with it.

>> No.4721571

>>4721468
Water can burn, just not in the normal convention.

Look at Sodium and Water.
You get a flame.

>> No.4721602

>>4721571
Thats hydrogen combustion, doofus. I'm not even a chemist and I know that.

>> No.4721605

>>4721571
notsureiftroll.jpg

>> No.4721612

>>4721571

Only gases can burn, brah.

>> No.4721617

>>4721571
5/10
if not troll i lose all faith in this board

>> No.4721616

>only gases can burn

I think I had too much stupid for lunch.

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>>4721602
>Water Burning mate
2H2O + 2Na ---> 2NaOH + H2
2H2 + O2 --> 2H2O
2H2O + 2Na ---> 2NaOH + H2
Repeat Till perfect combustion ratio.
Then you get a boom.


You wouldn't get a flame if water wasn't a participant. (Yes there are exceptions)

mfw people misread what you mean.

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If you faggots don't believe me, that water can create a flame, Let me ask you this:
Can you believe this this reaction, to cause a flame.
3CuCl2 + 2Al --->2AlCl3 +3Cu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dmNjI4bKuU

What's causing the flame here? The Cu particles are fucking being transferred via gas phase. Water, even though it's a small part to the reaction, still participates as a reactant.

If you faggots think this is fake, I will demonstrate this in my lab for you.

Fucking unbelievable /sci/
>>4721617
I too have lost faith in /sci/

>> No.4721671

>>4721648
It's still not combustion, it just makes a lot of energy. I'm not sure how flame is rigorously defined, but I'd think it would be with combustion instead of just anything that makes a flashy flash.

>> No.4721684

>>4721648
"burning" is combustion, aka rapid, exothermic oxidization. flame isn't required for burning. water is already hydrogen oxide.

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>>4721671
You're right there, Where is a flame define as.

Is it combustion purely, or is it the exterior transferring of electrons?

Where we draw the line, I don't know.
From my perspective, I'm right.
From a organic chemists perspective, he might say otherwise.
>>4721684
See above.

>> No.4721752

I like how someone has a science-related question and we totally go off on an argument about something tangential that was likely a troll in the first place. OP: what I mentioned before is the reason. Water itself has no taste, it all comes from stuff dissolved in it, whether it's minerals (like salt or iron or copper) or organic matter or air (ever notice when you turn a faucet on full blast to get a drink it tastes a little different than when you just turn it on a little?) or even inorganic compounds, and the point of distillation is to remove all of that. Either the lack of anything good is making it seem like it tastes bad, or something you don't like got dissolved in it before the water got to you, probably microscopic parts of whatever it was carried in or air or dust that you're not used to.