XPost: alt.home.repair   
   From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 7 Jan 2023 22:19:12 -0600, Bugsy   
    wrote:   
      
   >My neighbor collects rain water for his car and home (iron) and he said i's   
   >the same as distilled water for those two purposes.   
   >   
   >Is it?   
      
   I have a friend who visits and he only drinks distilled water, plus I   
   use it for the car battery and used to actually do ironing.   
      
   So I buy a gallon, which is pretty cheap even by my tightwad standards,   
   though now they are pushing not steam-distilled by something else I   
   forget.   
      
   Then I left it on the cement basement floor for months, and then put it   
   on the formica kitchen counter, and that night it leaked, the water   
   entered a crack between the top and front, and the counter swelled.   I   
   assume there was some connection between the cement and the leak, even   
   though it didn't leak until after it was on the counter. ?????   
      
   One serious example of the difference between distilled and rain is acid   
   rain.   I don't think that exists everywhere and iirc it's not as great   
   even in the Northeast as it was, since changes occurred as to what fuels   
   were burned in the midatlantic and midwest and w.va., kentucky and   
   tennessee.   But I was in a cemetery a couple days ago and any tombstone   
   earlier than 1870 was almost impossible to read, because of acid rain on   
   marble.  About that time I guess it was, people started switching to   
   granite, which is iiuc not affected by acid rain.   
      
   If there were nothing but air in the air, rain water would be the same   
   as distilled.   
      
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