How to distill and purify tap water?

Question

How do you distrill and purity tap water? Would keeping tap water in a reused plastic bottle for a few weeks do this?

Answer 1

Distillation is an energy hungry and time consuming procedure.

Reverse osmosis works very well for water purification. Quick and easy.

Keeping the tap water in a plastic bottle may get rid of dissolved chlorine, but would do little else. Any other contaminants would remain. Brita and similar filters are a waste of time.

Get a TDS (Total Dissolved Solids) meter to check the quality of the purified water.

Answer 2

Distillation is the boiling of a liquid and the collection of the resultant vapor. To distill water, it is boiled, leaving the impuritites behind, and the gas, in this case steam, is collected and condensed. This is pure water. In chemistry it it referred to as Type I water. If it is then passed through a series of activated charcoal filters to further remove impurities, it is referred to as Type II water.

Answer 3

Can be purified chemically. Can be filtered mechanically and purified also. To distill, just boil into a copper coil, and let condense to a container, but that may not result in pure water, depending on what is on the copper coil, or in the receptacle.

Answer 4

Well theres always the evaporation method. Boil the water and capture the vapour. Or us a Brita filter - sold in grocery stores- works well

Answer 5

,large clean pan, Clean water, let the cold water fauset run for a minute to run the pipes in your building through and get fresh water out to the street pulled up and out of the fauset,possibly getting the standing water in possible a lead contaminated systems in most old homes run off first, put water on gas stove boil and let it set till it comes back to cold from sitting in the refrigerator and put in bottles put back in frig til you want to use them , pull out and try the taste the next day just to see what you like ~(^_^)~