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| Thread ID: 97051 | 2009-02-02 16:27:00 | Where to get distlled water? | Ninjabear (2948) | PC World Chat |
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| 744308 | 2009-02-03 10:37:00 | Rain water will suffice - your venus plant won't know the difference :) Rain water is distilled but rain falls through the atmosphere collecting minerals as it goes. And as Ninjabear says there has not been a lot of rain falling anyway where He/She is like in Palmerston North. I take it that you are an expert on raising said plant(s). Personally I do not want a Venus Fly Trap as I let the spiders eat everthing around here. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 744309 | 2009-02-03 17:37:00 | Personally I do not want a Venus Fly Trap as I let the spiders eat everthing around here.I tried this method too. Unfortunately the spiders became a nuisance too, just a lot bigger (in size) nuisance | Myth (110) | ||
| 744310 | 2009-02-03 17:38:00 | Whats the difference between spghagnum moss and peat moss?Once is alive and the other is dead moss right?Not actually sure. I just remember reading about that the flytrap prefers growing in that type of environment over normal dirt | Myth (110) | ||
| 744311 | 2009-02-03 20:37:00 | I have grown fly traps in the past, including from seed. I never bothered with distilled water, using tapwater was fine. If you want to use purer water, use rain water, water from the dehumidifier or cooled boiled water. Boiling water removes residual chlorine from the water treatment process, and also lime. Whatever remains will not affect your plants. Just think of what water they live in in the wild, hardly pure, often stagnant. I think it is the chlorine that is the most important to remove, just like when fish water is aged first from the tap before adding to the tank (allows the chlorine to dissipate). BTW, I used to teach chemistry so I have some knowledge of the subject :-) |
user (1404) | ||
| 744312 | 2009-02-04 10:15:00 | I thought the point of boiling water was to remove the bacteria from the water? If the steamed vapour from the boiled water is distilled then why would people say distilled water is the steam from the boiled water? |
Ninjabear (2948) | ||
| 744313 | 2009-02-04 11:44:00 | I thought the point of boiling water was to remove the bacteria from the water? If the steamed vapour from the boiled water is distilled then why would people say distilled water is the steam from the boiled water? The steam from from boiled water needs to be condensed. Then of course you will have distilled water. Much like we get Petrol and Diesel from Oil for example. A refinery simply breaks the oil down to its various components. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 744314 | 2009-02-04 15:41:00 | I work in a power station with boilers operating at 540C and 160 bar. For these high temperatures and pressures we have a water treatment plant that makes de-ionised water. That's ALL impurities removed, so pure that it won't pass an electric current. It's the dissolved chemicals in ordinary water that allows electrical conductivity. The generator is cooled by hydrogen, which is cooled by demineralised water, which doesn't allow electrical conductivity. Our water treatment plant can make hundreds of tons a day of demin water. It's excellent for batteries & irons but tastes awful, well no taste at all. No good for your plant. |
Fishb8 (484) | ||
| 744315 | 2009-02-04 18:34:00 | No good for your plant. Have you tried the taste with a fly dissolving in it? Even the distilled water available in the supermarket has only 0.5-1ppm mineral content and very little conductivity. |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 744316 | 2009-04-02 07:34:00 | Its just the pure water..what you do with it? Of course it is not suitable for drinking because it becomes distilled water after several processes... | Kevinz (14578) | ||
| 744317 | 2009-04-02 12:24:00 | wat | roddy_boy (4115) | ||
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