
What is pure water - Chemistry Stack Exchange
Apr 15, 2017 · Can someone please explain to me what does "pure" water mean? The definition vary so much everywhere I look. But I just want to see it from a chemistry/scientific perspective.
Why is the concentration of pure water 55.5 mol/L?
May 13, 2017 · Since \pu1000mL \pu 1000 m L of water is precisely \pu1dm3 \pu 1 d m 3 (and the units for concentration are in moles per decimetre), the concentration of water is also \pu55.5moldm − 3 …
Effect of drinking ultra-pure water - Chemistry Stack Exchange
May 3, 2015 · Pure water (i.e. 18 Megohm conductivity) is still just water. If you don't drink so much as to cause water intoxication, it would be no different physiologically from drinking tap water or bottled water.
Why is water considered a pure substance instead of a mixture?
Dec 19, 2016 · Why is water considered a pure substance instead of a mixture? Wouldn't it, when the hydrogen atoms combine with the oxygen atom, be considered a mixture, because the atoms were …
What is a pure substance? - Chemistry Stack Exchange
Water is a pure substance, so long as it has been purified. Most water that we encounter has other substances dissolved in it. Gold (as long as it is 24K) is a pure elemental substance. So is diamond …
Corrosiveness of Deionized vs Distilled water for use in Laboratory ...
Aug 3, 2022 · Yes, deionized or distilled water will leach some metallic ions but corrosion means measurable metal loss to the extent that it causes economic damage. Thus, corrosiveness distilled …
electrolysis - Why can't pure water conduct electricity since it can be ...
Aug 19, 2013 · We all know that pure water can't conduct electricity. But during electrolysis, if add a small amount of HCl H C l acid inside, water could be decomposed to hydrogen gas and oxygen gas, …
acid base - Why isn't water acidic? - Chemistry Stack Exchange
Feb 2, 2013 · However, pure, neutral water can behave as a Lewis Base (lone pair donor) due to the lone pairs present on oxygen. For example, water behaves as a Lewis Base and Al 3+ as a Lewis …
What is the real pKa of water? - Chemistry Stack Exchange
Jan 25, 2019 · The normal (thermodynamic) one is to use the pure solvent (water) as the standard state, effectively this means, via the activity, replacing water concentration with 1 in the equilibrium …
electrochemistry - Electrolysis of water - why not pure water ...
Sea water, which has a salinity of about 3.5%, is about one million times as conductive as pure water. According to this Wikipedia article: Electrolysis of pure water requires excess energy in the form of …