I was in a store and I saw expensive water. It was labeled " vapor distilled water + oxygen." What makes that any different than normalwater? ... What a skirmish your question caused among my panel Lauren. It turns out that the conclusion to this comparison is still being debated. For any comparison to have value, we have to carefully identify and label what we are comparing. While the Panel argues over the conclusion, you and I will first determine WHAT was in that bottle of expensive water you wrote us about by going word by word of their discription. The word vapor will fall right into place after we define “distilled” Anything that is distilled has underwent the distillation process. Distillation is nothing more than heating a mixture that contains a target liquid we want to separate from the mixture. When our product is to be water, the mixture is slowly brought to a temperature of 212 F, The water then boils off as steam just like a pot of water on your stove. But a distillation apparatus does not allow the steam to escape without first passing though a very cold tube. Instead of the steam escaping into the air as steam like at home, the cold tube turns it back into liquid water and it drips into a collection container. The collection container has to be emptied just before reaching 212 because it is full of other liquids with lower boiling points that distilled before the water. After the water distills, all that is left of the mixture is solids and “heavier” liquids. The word “Vapor” is just an extra word to make the product seem worth the money. “Distilled” would be just fine because distilling is done by steam and steam is always vapor but vapor is not always steam. After taking questions on distillation of water and other things, we will address the oxygen feature, and then you will cast the deciding vote on the conclusion.
Posted on: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 04:11:48 +0000
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