Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim: Once the distilled water has chemicals mixed in it, it is no longer pure and doesn't cause any problems. The same may be true when phot-flo is added to the water. All I was trying to explain is why distlled water may be a problem, and left it open for anybody more knowledgeable to inform us of the truth. Rain water is not distilled water. Distilled water is pure h20 made by condensing steam. Rain is condensation, but it goes through a lot of atmoshphere and picks up organic compounds on the way through. In Nova Scotia we have had some problems with lakes being ruined by the acid rain. This rain is formed when it falls though the polution in the atmoshpere that comes up from the Eastern United States. Regards, Robert At 10:35 AM 2/18/99 -0800, you wrote: >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, >> > > > > >