Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I guess, all I have to go by, is my many many years of actual use. And never having, what could be conceived of, as a problem. So it's a mystery to me, why someone else would get soft emulsion, but I don't... At Brooks Institute, my roommate and I, bought those very large bottles (water cooler size bottles) of "distilled" water and used it for all of our processing. I wonder why rain water doesn't explode organic matter? Jim At 02:19 PM 2/18/99 -0400, you wrote: >Jim: > >I will have to side with Ken on this one. I remember in High School >Biology class we did an experiment on Osmosis in cells. With distilled >water the cells would blow up and some explode. I think it had to do with >the difference between inside the cell and outside. I don't know wheter it >is trying to equalize the salinity or what, but a more knowlegeable person >than me can explain this. The distilled water is so pure, it rushes in >through the membranes of the cell. I think the emulsion is gelatin and >made of cells. This may be the argument that Ken was using. > >Regards, >