Distilled water is used:
- - For topping up the battery, preparing electrolyte.
- - In home cosmetology, to cleanse the skin.
- - For refilling irons with a steam generator, which extends their service life and does not leave white marks on clothes when ironing.
- - For oral administration - cleansing the body. Some people like to make tea. The issue of benefit is of course very controversial, so we will not dwell on it.
- - There are other applications, write your examples in the comments.
Distilled water is actually pure “H2O” without impurities and salts, viruses and bacteria. And water itself is the best solvent on planet Earth, in which a huge number of chemical elements dissolve.
Distilled water can only be obtained by evaporation; no filter elements can help here. Therefore, to obtain this miracle, you need a device such as a distiller. It consists of a heating vessel containing liquid, in which evaporation occurs, and a refrigerator, in which condensation of vapor into liquid occurs. Anyone who has ever seen a device for making “moonshine” will understand me.
All this, of course, is not very difficult, but it requires preparation and production of equipment.
Simple DIY distiller
I will show you a simple way to make a primitive distiller from a saucepan in 5 minutes to obtain distilled water at home. No modifications to the pan will be required and after use it will continue to serve its intended purpose.
What is needed to obtain distilled water?
A saucepan with a lid. It would be great if the lid was transparent, but this is not essential. The main thing is that it is convex and not straight.
The size of the pot depends on your distilled water needs. Next we need a deep plate that will fit into the pan.
You will also need ice, which can be obtained using the refrigerator and plain water.
The process of obtaining distilled water at home
Pour water into the pan. Such an amount that you could put a plate on it without it tipping over. About one third.
If you are using running water, leave the pan open to allow excess chlorine to ventilate.
After this, put the pans on the fire.
Place a deep plate on this water inside.
Distilled water will collect in it. And we’ll close the lid on top, just not as usual, but turn it inside.
As soon as the water starts to boil in the pan, put ice on top of the lid.
What's happening?
Under the influence of temperature, water will begin to turn into steam. The steam, in turn, will condense on the ice-cooled lid. And since the lid is convex inward, droplets of condensation will flow down and drip into the floating plate.
Storage
Once you have collected a full plate of distilled water, you can pour it into a clean jar for further storage.
Since water is absolutely “empty”, it is stored for a very, very long time in a container with a tight lid.
But before pouring the water into the vessel, I recommend rinsing it twice: once with plain water and detergent, and a second time with a small amount of distilled water, which you then need to discard. And then add water for storage.
The second rinse is needed to remove any remaining non-distilled water from the surface.
Testing
Checking the quality of distilled water is very simple. To do this, take a 220 V strap with a power of 15-40 watts. Connect it to a 220 V network and open the circuit, connect the electrodes, which are immersed in distilled water.
Pure distilled water does not conduct current, and if there are no unnecessary impurities, the light bulb will not light up. But if you violated the technology during the distillation process (you didn’t wash the vessel or plate, or perhaps non-distilled water got in), the lamp’s filament will be red, which in turn will mean the presence of salts in the water.
Conclusion
So, friends, if you urgently need to get a small amount of distilled water, then this method will definitely help you out, requiring very little effort and time from you. And most importantly - no costs!
