eli5: is condensed water safe to drink in a survival situation?

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If i have sea water/salt water, and i boil it and gather the condensation, will i be able to survive off of that?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

That’s not what condensed means, you’re thinking of the term condensation I think. But yes, that works. It’s called “distilling” when you boil water and collect the vapor.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Yes. But that is not condensed water. Condesned water is not a thing. What you have done is distilled the water.

Yes the water does condense, but this does not make it condensed water.

You don’t want to distill the water too well though, because pure distilled water is very dangerous to drink.

Anonymous 0 Comments

You definitely can. Mythbusters did it by letting sea water into a hole they dug in the sand, and putting plastic wrap above part of that hole to collect the evaporated-then-condensed water.