Waht exaclty are you saying? It is or it isnt? FYI high output radio stations use pure water to cool the transmitting tubes. These tubes dont fail due to corrosion.
Chris DeLong Fine Tuning 206.427.4777 www.finetuningperformance.com Seattle, WA USA
>From: Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ> >Reply-To: Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ> >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >Subject: Re: for the record water is not corrosive >Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 18:20:21 +1200 > >> and for the record water is not corrosive, gary > >Pure (multidistilled) water IS corrosive; it will dissolve (leach) >chemicals/elements out of nearly everything it touches until it >attains an "equilibrium" (actually there is no such thing as >equilibrium... it is an ideal, not a fact). > >Tapwater has plenty of impurities. > >Distyilled water will not conduct electricity either. It needs to >contain plenty of metal ions in order to conduct. >-- >Andrew Grebneff >Dunedin >New Zealand ><andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> >Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut _________________________________________________________________ MSN Toolbar provides one-click access to Hotmail from any Web page – FREE download! http://toolbar.msn.com/go/onm00200413ave/direct/01/ |
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