Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Homebrew PCBs

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Len Warner <yahoo@...> wrote:
...
> On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 at 15:31, Steve clarified:
>
> >...You can
> >skip the IPA if you wish, but you should use filtered or distilled
water.
> >
> >"Purified" water is just tap water that has had clorine gas added or
> >been passed under UV to kill junk in it, but still has all the
minerals.
> >
> >Steve Greenfield
>
> This seems to be another example of GBS's aphorism
> "Two nations separated by a common tongue."
>
> This morning my father bought from the local chemist (pharmacy)
> "Purified Water (Conductivity under 30uS) Non-Sterile 5 litre" @ £2.79
>
> [We also have "Purified Water BP" which comes weld-sealed in
> poly bottles and is sterile and guaranteed to be free of pyrogens too
> but I don't know the specification of that offhand.]

Well, that's great but at least in the US (where 90% of the population
is stupid for bottled water) you can pick up jugs of "purified" water
all day in grocery stores that are as I described. Killed but not
filtered or distilled. And then there is bottled drinking water, who
knows what is in there? I picked up a bottle of what I thought was
water at a local charity event; it was clear, it said the word "Water"
on it. Imagine my surprise when it turned out sticky and sweet! "How
Gatorade does water." Ugh. Give me good ol' dihydrogen monoxide any day.

And any of these I can pick up from the local drugstore. As I can also
pick up oily rubbing alcohol and soapy cleaning ammonia.

Hence my clarification. Since you can figure out what I meant by the
words I used, no need to try and drag me over the coals about it.

Steve Greenfield