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I don't object at all to hypothetical discussions here, but I still wonder, Why not buy distilled water. My car battery only needs water ever 2 or 3 years, and I barely do ironing anymore but if I did Wegman's has a gallon of "distilled" water for $1.29. That would last me 5 years.
I'm a little suprrised they can call it distilled, especially Wegman's which I think is a more expensive than average grocery and which pushes quality instead of price (afaik). I'm surprised at Wegmans even if the the FDA has liberalized a rule to allow it, and I'm surprised at the FDA too. Distilled and distillation** have a long-term accepted meaning, and their Details makes clear this is not it: "Our Distilled Water has been filtered to remove all minerals and impurities. What remains is clear and pure water. Distilled water is a wonderful multi-purpose water, great for drinking, [except it has no taste] use in cooking, or even in your steam Iron! Processed by: Micron Filtration, Ozonation, Ultraviolet Light & Steam Distillation. ..."
I just noticed at the end they bring up steam distillation. If they do that, why do they have to do the other things? Doesn't steam distillation do everything filtering, ozone, and UV could do?
**Try making moonshine without a real still, with only a filter, ozone, and UV.They also sell purified water, a gallon for $1.29
And finally they have, under a fancier name, SmartWater Distilled Water, Vapor, for $2.89 for 1.5 liters. Now no one knows how many liters it takes to make a gallon, but it's more than 1.5 and the price is twice as much so the price is more than 4 times as much
Details "Vapor distilled water and electrolytes for taste purely balanced pH. Purity you can taste. [That must mean that there is no taste, because it's the minerals that give good tap water and spring water their taste.] Hydration you can feel. [Give me a break. Even dirty, muddy water will hydrate you, and if you're bad off, you'll feel the improvement.] Clouds might throw some shade, but they give us nature's purest source of water. We think that's pretty smart, so we took inspiration from our puffy white friends and created [as though they thought of this, when distilled water has been made for hundreds of years!!] pure, vapor-distilled [So this is NewSpeak. It used to be all distilled water had been turned into vapor first, and the other stuff was called filtered water, but now they are trying to convince people that vaporization is just one kind of distillation. Bullox (did I use that right?)] Smartwater with a purely balanced pH. Then we one-up'd nature and added electrolytes for a crisp, clean taste. [Oh, so it does have taste, but now it's no longer distilled, and they don't say what it will do to your iron and car battery!]
If I were any of you, including me, I'd buy a gallow of real steam distilled water now before it's harder to find. The first two chains I looked at didn't seem to have it.
The last time I bought it at Walmart, only because I was there for some other reason. I hate to admit that, and I hate to push walmart, but I think they don't have it either:
I was going to cross post to sci.chem or even sci.physics, but there are nothing but trolls there now. Why is it that when normal people leave a ng, trolls show up, when there are no normal people to read what the trolls want read? And why don't they post much before others leave?