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		By: Margaret		</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2019 16:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So back in the day, the people boiled the water and poured it though cheese cloth and that strained it. Let it cool and pour in clean glass jar. Is this distilled roughed for indoor plants that are now outside plants due to size?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So back in the day, the people boiled the water and poured it though cheese cloth and that strained it. Let it cool and pour in clean glass jar. Is this distilled roughed for indoor plants that are now outside plants due to size?</p>
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		By: David		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2018 22:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This article is very wrong about distilling water. The process it describes will help to get chlorine out of the water (as discussed in Brian&#039;s note) and will be better for watering plants than plain tap water, but distilling is a specific process: you boil the water and capture the vapor, letting it condense back in a liquid that is collected in a container separate from the boiling water. Water will boil (turn to gas) before most of the other things that are also mixed with it, so the vapor is mostly pure water. Everything else is left behind in the original liquid.

An important note is that it will also leave behind potentially beneficial things like minerals, so it may be necessary to supplement certain plants as a result.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This article is very wrong about distilling water. The process it describes will help to get chlorine out of the water (as discussed in Brian&#8217;s note) and will be better for watering plants than plain tap water, but distilling is a specific process: you boil the water and capture the vapor, letting it condense back in a liquid that is collected in a container separate from the boiling water. Water will boil (turn to gas) before most of the other things that are also mixed with it, so the vapor is mostly pure water. Everything else is left behind in the original liquid.</p>
<p>An important note is that it will also leave behind potentially beneficial things like minerals, so it may be necessary to supplement certain plants as a result.</p>
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		By: jacey		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2018 22:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[That&#039;s not how you distill water.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s not how you distill water.</p>
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		By: Gabriel Roman		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2016 22:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So, the only thing you have to make distilled water is leave outside for two days?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, the only thing you have to make distilled water is leave outside for two days?</p>
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		By: Brian Rossini		</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2015 07:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.professorshouse.com/watering-plants-with-distilled-water/#comment-2547&quot;&gt;Kath Peiffer&lt;/a&gt;.

Aging water is different from distilling it. 
     Leaving it to sit is aging, for the sole purpose of removing the chlorine. You can also remove correspond by putting it in a hug and shaking it for 30 seconds. Both work because chlorine is very unstable in solution, coming out of solution easily. (Pool guys add a stabilized to chlorinated pools to get chlorine to remain in solution longer).
     Distilled water is water that has been boiled, has evaporated into a gas (waterm vapor), then condensed and collected. The apparatus that does this is called a still (same name for the thing that makes hard alcohol). It can also be referred to as a distiller. The purpose is to separate the pure water from the dissolved and suspended compounds. The other compounds don&#039;t vaporize or condense at the same temps so they separate.
     So, aging tap water is good if there is chlorine, then you can use the aged tap water in your outdoor plants. However, tap water still has all the same minerals in it when it&#039;s done aging, but some of the dissolved gasses have changed, mainly less chlorine. So aged tap is still not good for your indoor plants.
     Good luck:)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.professorshouse.com/watering-plants-with-distilled-water/#comment-2547">Kath Peiffer</a>.</p>
<p>Aging water is different from distilling it.<br />
     Leaving it to sit is aging, for the sole purpose of removing the chlorine. You can also remove correspond by putting it in a hug and shaking it for 30 seconds. Both work because chlorine is very unstable in solution, coming out of solution easily. (Pool guys add a stabilized to chlorinated pools to get chlorine to remain in solution longer).<br />
     Distilled water is water that has been boiled, has evaporated into a gas (waterm vapor), then condensed and collected. The apparatus that does this is called a still (same name for the thing that makes hard alcohol). It can also be referred to as a distiller. The purpose is to separate the pure water from the dissolved and suspended compounds. The other compounds don&#8217;t vaporize or condense at the same temps so they separate.<br />
     So, aging tap water is good if there is chlorine, then you can use the aged tap water in your outdoor plants. However, tap water still has all the same minerals in it when it&#8217;s done aging, but some of the dissolved gasses have changed, mainly less chlorine. So aged tap is still not good for your indoor plants.<br />
     Good luck:)</p>
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		By: Kath Peiffer		</title>
		<link>https://www.professorshouse.com/watering-plants-with-distilled-water/#comment-2547</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kath Peiffer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2015 15:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Why must the water be put outside to distill?  Couldn&#039;t it distill just as well sitting in my apartment?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why must the water be put outside to distill?  Couldn&#8217;t it distill just as well sitting in my apartment?</p>
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