How to get a distillate at home: the simplest ways

It is quite easy to find an application for distilled water in everyday life: pour it into an iron steam generator or an air humidifier, fill the battery, and you never know what else. Some even use it for cosmetic procedures. There is no particular problem to get a distillate. There would be a desire, but the unit is easy to build. Water passed through distiller, has no impurities in its composition. This is the purest compound H₂Oh, oddly enough, it is practically not suitable for constant drinking precisely because of the absence of impurities.

General structure of the distiller

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The unit consists of vesselswhere the water is heated and evaporated, and

refrigerator. Due to the temperature difference, the vapor (by condensation) is converted into a liquid. For those who have seen the moonshine still in operation, it is quite easy to imagine what this equipment will look like.

Using the classic "Crane-Cola" as a raw material for transformation, it is allowed to settle for at least five hours. This must be done so that all the bleach will evaporate from the water.

Pot distiller

To make a miracle unit you will need:

• Casserole with convex cover. The size can be any, depending on how much purified water is planned to be collected.
• You also need to prepare deep plate. Its diameter should be smaller than that of the pan so that it fits easily inside.
• Pre-cooked ice cubes from the freezer.

The cooking process looks like this:

• Put the pot of water on the fire and boil. It is enough to pour the liquid into about a third of the pan. Place a plate on the water, but so that it stays on the surface and does not sink. In this container, and will accumulate purified water. Close the pan with a lid, placing the handle inward. After boiling, put on top of the lid ice.
• Boiling, the water turns into steam. It, falling on the surface of an inverted cooled lid, is converted into condensate and drains into a plate. After the process of obtaining clean water is completed, it can be poured into a jar and seal tightly with a lid.

Distilled water retains its qualities for a long time, but subject to proper storage: the vessel must be thoroughly washed and dried before use, and only then distill.

Distiller of two bottles

This method is also based on boiling. It is suitable if you are very impatient and need to get clean fresh water, say, from sea water. Fit any pair of bottles with the same necks. Under one of them, filled with dirty (or salty) water and installed in a container with dry sand, a fire is made so that it does not burst from overheating. The second is lowered into a container with wet sand to remove heat. Place them horizontally, pressing their necks together.

As a result, the water evaporating in one bottle will condense into another in the form of a distillate. Funny design? Well, perhaps this awkward device saved dozens of lives. In about ten minutes you can distill up to half a cup of water, and this is not so little.

How to check the quality of the distillate

The technique is as simple as three kopecks. If you remember physics, distilled water - insulator, unlike any other found in nature. There are simply no conductors in it - there are no salts. This is what we will use. We take the most ordinary 220-volt carrying lamp, 40 watts, and break the circuit by connecting a pair of electrodes to the break point for convenience. Or, without further ado, simply stick bare wires into the water.

By placing the electrodes in the water, we serve food. Fearfully? We've seen enough films. Nothing terrible will happen - if the water is distilled, the light bulb will not even try to light up. If there are impurities in the water, the filament will turn red a little, that's all.

Attention! Don't repeat this trick with plain water or stick your hands in it!