Re: Myths about distilled water

Personally I prefer reverse osmosis to distilled water. There are more contaminants that end up in the finished product when steam distilling.

Here is a bit of real Science to compare with the pseudoscience.

The equilibrium between the water molecule and its ions shows that there are the same number of water molecules forming from union of the two ions as are dissociating into ions. The concentrations of the hydronium and hydroxide ions obey an equilibrium equation:

[H3O+] [OH–] = Kw

where the concentrations are expressed in molarity and KW is the ion-product constant for water. At a temperature of 25°C, the value of that constant is:

Kw= 1.0 x 10 to the neg 14th


In pure water, the concentrations of H3O+ and OH– must be equal because the dissociation of H2O yields the same number of each of them. You can calculate the ionic concentrations from the equilibrium equation and the ion-product constant:


//www.curezone.org/upload/_U_V_W_Forums/Water/hydronium.pdf


The small value for the ion concentrations shows that in pure water only 1 in every 555,000,000 molecules has dissociated.

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