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Originally Posted by Theodoric
Nostalgia time When I was a young lad (come back here, you!), we purified water by distillation or, for the luxury version, double distillation. If your water was like liquid chalk, the elements would fur up completely by the end of the first day.
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Memories eh, when I was young and stupid, (now old and much the same) and at school, I remember being in the Science Room, the teacher was distilling some water. I did not notice the hose from the cold tap running into the equipment, all I could see was a bunsen burner under a glass jar, a few strange glass structures and a strong flow of water coming out of the end of a piece of rubber tube.
I asked the teacher why, if such a small amount of water could be turned into a steady flow, why wasn't this process used in the desert.
DOH.
