How do i remove salt out of salt water?

Question

I'm doing an english project on survival...I need to find a way to remove salt out of salt water. Can i just boil it or do i need a desalter kit?

Answer 1

unless you have a reverse osmosis machine, which i'm sure you don't since your project is on survival. the most basic thing to know is that you don't take the salt out of the salt water, you have to take the water out of the salt water.

again, there are different ways of doing this but the simplest way is to boil the water and use some type of containtment chamber to capture the steam and cool it down back into water. remember, water turns into steam at 100 degrees celsius. i can't recall the farenheit.

Answer 2

There are two main desalting technologies: distillation and reverse osmosis. Distillation uses heating, evaporation and condensation to remove salt from water. Reverse Osmosis pushes water through very small, semi-permeable membranes which don't allow salt through ("Taking Salt out of Seawater").

Answer 3

I think you either boil it or evaporate the water and the salt should be left behind... try looking it up on the internet or something

Answer 4

Boil it long enough to evaporate all the water, and the salt will remain in the container. But you knew that...

Answer 5

boil it and have a tube attached to the top of the jar you are boiling from so it is like a chimney for steam then have that steam drain into a seprate container.
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Answer 6

Iodine tablets...boil it and trap the steam, or what the hell a little salt never hurt anyone

Answer 7

boil the water and cover it w/plastic so you can catch the water when it evaporates. There are also special filters you can buy, but they are expensive!

Answer 8

You need some way to evaporate the water and have it condense into a container.
Distillation would work.

Answer 9

you just boil it and it
i am sure you need more info that that just go look it up on the net under what you asked

Answer 10

id just boil it but dont quote me on it dude