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What does it mean when water or alcohol is distilled? Is there a stilled water?

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Remember in the movies when they talk about moonshine “stills” – that really is exactly where the phrase came from.

distilling is just a series of “pots” where you heat or boil a liquid to remove impurities *(or remove water)

Imagine if you were lost at sea and needed clean water to drink – you could distill water just using trash bags and a heat source – *(heat up sea water and catch the steam, you would have water that your body could drink. It would probably taste like shit compared to the evian or aquafina we are used to – but it would work and you wouldn’t die of thirst)

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