Posted by Larry Hoover on October 10, 2003, at 10:07:19
In reply to Re: water distillers » Larry Hoover, posted by Wolf Dreamer on October 10, 2003, at 8:35:00
> Wolf Dreamer: "Stainless steel contains either nickel or chromium, both of which leak into the water and contaminate them."
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> Larry Hoover: "Only a concern in cooking, not in distillation."
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> Why would it happen with cooking but not while distilling? It heats up the same amount either way.It happens in both situations, but it's only a concern in cooking, as your food is exposed to the water, or the water becomes part of the food (e.g. soup). In distillation, the minerals are left behind, making it irrelevant what dissolves from the boiler. Because you have to clean the boiler (to remove calcium carbonate and other deposits), or at least, dump the water with the concentrated minerals present, you dispose of the chromium and nickel. It doesn't get into the distillate (the cleaned water).
> The history of fluoride can be found here. Much better link than the last one. The aluminum companies are on record testifying about giving an impressively large amount of money to a man who took over the government department in charge of public health, who then took the hazard waste of fluoride and convinced people it was a good thing. People stopped bugging them about polluting the air and water with it after that.
> http://www.hcdentistry.com/fluoride.htm
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> Larry Hoover: "Not relevant. The reason that the boiler is stainless steel is make to it more durable. Glass breaks. Iron rusts. Blah. Blah."
> Blah blah sounds so scientific. ;)OK, how's Latin? et cetera ;-)
> I have a glass pot I boil eggs in all the time and it never breaks.
Strictly speaking, it's not glass. It's a transparent ceramic. If you ever boil a glass/ceramic boiler dry, it will crack (or explode). That's what I was referring to, with respect to durability. Heat will discolour stainless, but it will otherwise be resistant to the effects of being boiled dry.
> And if nickle can get into the water and cause problems for some people, then it is relevant.
It won't get into the distillate, the distilled water you're trying to produce. Nickel ions are not vapourizable, so they will not be carried across to the condensor by the steam.
Lar
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