good point, water for chemistry lab use is either distilled 3 times or deionized and distilled 3 times depending on the purity required. --- "Koch, Gerald" <gkoch02@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Distilled, de-ionized and treated by reverse osmosis waters > should be > interchangeable. Real distilled water may be more expensive > due to the > added energy cost in boiling it. It may be that "distilled" > is used as > a blanket term. In today's dumbed down society the average > person > probably doesn't known what de-ionized means. > > Jerry > > -----Original Message----- > From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ben R. > McRee > Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 1:29 PM > To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [pure-silver] Deionized Water-Advantages & Sources? > > > I've made a point of using distilled water for many of my > photographic uses. But I'm hearing more references lately to > distilled AND deionized water. What are the advantages? And > where > might I be able to find it? > > I was just in the grocery store today (where I usually buy > distilled > water). I didn't find any bottle that claimed the water was > deionised. I also noted that the store has replaced much (but > not > all) of its selection of distilled with reverse osmosis water! > I'm > guessing that it may get harder to find distilled water. > > --Ben > ======================================================================== > ===================================== > To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and > logon to your > account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when > you > subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there. > ============================================================================================================To > unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon > to your account (the same e-mail address and password you > set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.