Keith Hughes wrote in news:46e62c2e$0$10300
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Depends on whether your still is really effective or not. If you're
only condensing *steam*, i.e. not water vapor but gaseous steam, you
may
be correct. However, unless your still is a multi-effect (doubtful) or
uses some form of cyclonic separation (doubtful), and uses some form of
demisting (also doubtful), you don't have quite the assurance you think
you do. Almost certainly any organisms will be inactivated, but you may
still have endotoxin carryover.


There is no water vapor making its way out of the water trap in the top
of the boiler. Water doesn't run well uphill with no pressure. There's
a special trap in the top to prevent it. I've never heard of endotoxin
vaporizing only the various ...enes like benzene, xylene, all carbon-
based that are trapped by the activated carbon filter the water coming
out passes ever so slowly through so these distillable petroleum products
attach themselves. You can easily taste these in the un-carbon-treated
distilled water. The taste is significantly different after carbon
filtration.

Another sign is my water will not conduct electricity, even at 2000 volts
from my megger. Distilled water is an insulator uncontaminated. ONE
grain of table salt just touching the water on the other side of a
container of it and ZOOM!....The current goes WAY up! I cannot get my
polycarbonate containers to get the TDS below about 1.9 ppm. I think the
containers themselves are being eaten by the really corrosive distilled
water, which causes a tiny leakage in the electrical test.

RO water has its place. But, there ARE bad problems with RO if it is not
meticulously maintained. And, it takes a lab test to see if it's safe
boaters don't have, placing WAY TOO MUCH FAITH in the integrity of that
membrane, I think.

Larry
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