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<blockquote data-quote="Shadowrider" data-source="post: 4048803" data-attributes="member: 3099"><p>It was explained to me by a degreed chemist that the molecules in pure water don't "play well alone". That they like to play with other molecules so they will "kidnap" them and won't let them go easily. Truly pure water will latch onto other all sorts of other molecules even to the point of grabbing some gasses out of the air. Water is the most powerful solvent on earth. Quite literally...</p><p></p><p>The finishing shop I worked in had an extremely elaborate water system, aerospace finishes require it. We treated the water coming in and then had to clean it as it went out. It started with city water. That went through a sand filter, a carbon filter, had a miniscule amount of muriatic acid injected into at the RO filter inlet, into the RO filter (which could do 15,000 gallons per day), and then through a couple of deionization canisters. We had storage tanks for both RO and DI water. We sent our water out for testing monthly and also checked with some special litmus strips on site. Our RO water was naturally not as good as the DI but it was close. Total dissolved solids is a quick and dirty glimpse of overall water quality and it was always close to 6 for our RO. DI would be a straight up ZERO. City water from OKC was actually pretty good at about 35-60 depending on time of year and usually at the lower end of that. That was years ago, so I have no idea what it is now. The lab tech at the lab we sent ours to told me that "you should see what some small towns send in, it'll shock you". Those are almost certainly sourced from wells. We had our sand, carbon and DI canisters switched out monthly.</p><p></p><p>Cleaning the hexavalent chromium out was either by chemical precipitation and filter press or vacuum distillation. Both processes were very interesting to watch happen. In school I could never stay awake in chemistry class. Chemistry books put me right to sleep. But when you get into a lab and start actually doing stuff and it's pretty freaking cool. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😎" title="Smiling face with sunglasses :sunglasses:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" data-shortname=":sunglasses:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shadowrider, post: 4048803, member: 3099"] It was explained to me by a degreed chemist that the molecules in pure water don't "play well alone". That they like to play with other molecules so they will "kidnap" them and won't let them go easily. Truly pure water will latch onto other all sorts of other molecules even to the point of grabbing some gasses out of the air. Water is the most powerful solvent on earth. Quite literally... The finishing shop I worked in had an extremely elaborate water system, aerospace finishes require it. We treated the water coming in and then had to clean it as it went out. It started with city water. That went through a sand filter, a carbon filter, had a miniscule amount of muriatic acid injected into at the RO filter inlet, into the RO filter (which could do 15,000 gallons per day), and then through a couple of deionization canisters. We had storage tanks for both RO and DI water. We sent our water out for testing monthly and also checked with some special litmus strips on site. Our RO water was naturally not as good as the DI but it was close. Total dissolved solids is a quick and dirty glimpse of overall water quality and it was always close to 6 for our RO. DI would be a straight up ZERO. City water from OKC was actually pretty good at about 35-60 depending on time of year and usually at the lower end of that. That was years ago, so I have no idea what it is now. The lab tech at the lab we sent ours to told me that "you should see what some small towns send in, it'll shock you". Those are almost certainly sourced from wells. We had our sand, carbon and DI canisters switched out monthly. Cleaning the hexavalent chromium out was either by chemical precipitation and filter press or vacuum distillation. Both processes were very interesting to watch happen. In school I could never stay awake in chemistry class. Chemistry books put me right to sleep. But when you get into a lab and start actually doing stuff and it's pretty freaking cool. 😎 [/QUOTE]
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