I heard in science class once years ago that distilled water is water so clean, it kills you. How?
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I think maybe you are confusing distilled water with deionized water. Distilled water is just boiled and then the vapors are condensed into a second (very clean) vessel, leaving behind most impurities in the first vessel.
Deionized water has ions, charged non-organic particles, removed. Your body, however, needs salts to survive. This is why when you get an IV at the doctor’s office they give you a saline solution rather than straight water. Flooding your ststen with pure water would “pull” essential salts from your cells (or dilute them) which could kill you. DI water is the purest, so in this case would be the most potent.
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