Distilled water is distilled water, not hot water. Distilled water comes from water boiled into a gas, then the gas is distilled by passing through a cooling coil or heat exchanger, and when this gas turns back to a liquid it is distilled water.
Commercial water distilling systems use either glass or stainless steel piping because pure distilled water is very "corrosive" to many piping materials. If I leave several plastic gallons of distilled water around for long periods they usually start to leak out. Not sure if that is eating a hole in the plastic or cheap plastic, but you will not get distilled water by just heating, it must turn to dry steam (gas) first. Jeff Yago _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Home Power magazine List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org Options & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org
