what is de-ionized water?

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I’m confused if it is a marketing term or if it’s a real way to make safe drinking water? If you distill water you are physically removing contaminants, which makes sense that it is safe to drink. De-ionizing is like removing ions, but what does that mean, is the water now cleaner?

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Distilling takes heat. Heat costs money.

If you pass water through a special resin bed, it takes things out of the water. There are resins that take EVERYTHING out.

At scale, it becomes cheaper to deionize water rather than distill it.

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