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2007-01-07 13:51:38 · 9 answers · asked by twistedangel 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
1. pure water will not conduct electricity.
2. Pure water is next to impossible to achieve.
Minute impurities in water cause it to conduct electricity very well. The chemicals we use to purify water, for example dissolve in it. Dissolved chemical compunds exist in an ionic state, meaning that the chemical bonds have broken and that there are free electrons floating around. Add electricity, and the free electrons serve to conduct it right along...
2007-01-07 14:04:43 · answer #1 · answered by chocolahoma 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only very pure water is a reluctant conductor of electricity. In fact, salt water is a very good conductor of electricity. Water impurities can be measured by Conductivity Meters - which measure the ability to conduct current. Its all the stuff in the water that gives it the ability to flow electrical current.
2007-01-07 14:02:25 · answer #2 · answered by jack w 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well you're right... pure water technically isn't a conductor of electricity. Tap water is though because of impurities. When you drop an electrical appliance into distilled water, it won't conduct. If you drop a hair dryer in bath water, it causes a huge electrical surge. Tap water tends to have things in it like chlorine if you have filters or sulfur in "hard water". Impurities like that cause water to conduct. When "impurities" dissolve in the water, they become ionized and that means you got electrons floating about. When electricity is put in the water, the electrons guide it causing it to conduct.
2007-01-07 14:27:23 · answer #3 · answered by Siylence 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
water that has been purifed (deionized, run through and R/O membrane, degassed, etc) has a resistance of about 18.4 megaohms. That water readily dissolves everything and absorbs CO2 and oxygen from air and very quickly loses it's high resistance and drops back to approximately tap water.
Tap water has low resistance (0 ohms) and high conductitivity due to dissolved minerals, gasses, etc. ie, tap water is a great conductor of electricity.
check it with an ohm meter if you have one.
2007-01-07 14:44:23 · answer #4 · answered by Dr W 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many minerals in normal tap water that do conduct electricity. Only deionized water won't conduct electricity.
2007-01-07 13:58:55 · answer #5 · answered by TMS 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Water is a conductor of electricity.
2007-01-07 13:58:54 · answer #6 · answered by Beej 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
What are you talking about???? It is a conductor of electricity!!!!
2007-01-07 14:00:25 · answer #7 · answered by chazzer 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
water is a conductor
2007-01-07 14:00:48 · answer #8 · answered by Fred S 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
electricity can still travel through it.
2007-01-07 13:59:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋