Distilled Water?

Question

I heard somewhere you can get it by the drips from the faucet or something like that, but I need to confirm it. How else can you get it besides buying it. Please help!

Answer 1

The process is relatively simple:
a) the dirty water is heated
b) to the boiling point and thus vaporizes
c) (becomes steam), while other substances remain in solid state, in boiler. Steam is then directed into a cooler
d) where it cools down and returns to liquid water
e) and the end result is a water, purified of additional substances found in it before distillation.

Distillation will remove from water almost anything, even heavy metals, poisons, bacteria and viruses. However, it does not remove substances that have boiling points at a lower temperature than water. Some of these substances are oils, petroleum, alcohol and similar substances, which in most cases don't mix with water. Also, remember that substances removed from water remain in the boiler, so you'll need to clean it up every once in awhile.

Answer 2

Filtration is not equivalent to distillation. Even reverse osmosis & ion exchange are not equivalent to distilled, although in some cases these processes might yield higher purity water than distilled.

Distilling is a purification technique, but the water that comes out does have an elevated carbonic acid concentration. Pure water is a powerful solvent. The condensing water will “getter” carbon dioxide right out of the air.

Answer 3

The only way to get distilled water is to distill it. The process is to boil the water collect the steam and condense it back into water. If you want to set-up a water still in your home, they are available from scientific supply houses for about 800 to $1000 dollars. Most people find it easier and cheaper to just buy distilled water. You should know that deionized water is a suitable substitute of distilled water in most applications.

Answer 4

Activated carbon filtration!

I don't think that it comes from the tap, so your best bet is either getting a chemistry lab, or buying it.

And the latter is so much easier...