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   Subject: Re: Rain water for distilled water in car & iron at home?   
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   In alt.home.repair, on 8 Jan 2023 22:02:42 -0000, kludge@panix.com   
   (Scott Dorsey) wrote:   
      
   >Gronk   wrote:   
   >>Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Put a small puddle of rainwater on a piece of glass, then let it evaporate   
   >>> inside in a clean and dry place.  Does it leave any residue?  Does it leave   
   >>> a whole lot of residue?  Does it leave corrosive residue?   
   >>   
   >>You'd need a lot more than a puddle to see the deposits, although you could   
   >>run that experiment with a glass tea kettle to boil the rainwater dry.   
   >   
   >Not around here.  Around here, the rainwater leaves VERY obvious spotting.   
   >Layer thick enough that you can see color in it too.   
   >   
   >>As for being corrosive, rain has long stopped being corrosive at the levels   
   >>that anyone would notice in their lifetime, even on marble & limestone.   
   >>   
   >>While pH 5.6 is acidic, it's mostly carbonic acid which is a weak acid.   
   >   
   >Depends where you are.  In Tidewater, VA you can see a big triangle of   
   >increased corrosion downwind of the trash-burning plant.   
   >--scott   
      
   That brings up another point.  Though I'm not saying how big a problem   
   acid rain is these days, someone distinguished between city and rural,   
   and that's not valid.  The acid in acid rain can come from 100's of   
   miles away and as the wind blows, it can rain on every place in between.   
      
   The acid in acid rain is generated from a broad area and that area   
   doesn't suffer from it anymore than the places downwind.   
      
   In the NE USA, the wind is mostly from the west. Weather comes mostly   
   from the west.   For some reason I think I remember that acid rain in NY   
   and New England comes from West Virginia, or maybe Kentucky, but I can't   
   remember why that would be.   For one thing, those are not W but SW of   
   New England.   
      
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