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sopuli.xyz

if it's pure H2O I don't think it's safe to ingest either

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The 2nd version of this container should add purity percentage.

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brapreply
lemmy.world

It’s lacking all sorts of minerals, electrolytes etc that the body needs. I doubt a glass of the stuff wouldn’t cause problems but if you only drink pure water then you’re going to start having problems pretty fast.

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takedareply
lemm.ee

It's basically distilled water, no?

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So if your diet is a bit high in salt, would distilled water help counteract it a bit?

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Yea I think you're fine drinking like a litre of distilled water. Too much of anything will kill you, even regular water.

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Lazhwardreply
lemmy.world

Would you really? Food also contains minerals and electrolytes.

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You could certainly make up the electrolytes and minerals in other ways (drinking distilled water may even increase appetites for those types of foods). Still, drinking a liquid that leeches minerals out of the tissue around it isn’t healthy

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Sundrayreply
lemmus.org

The LD50 for pure H2O seems to be >90,000 mg/kg. (According to rat studies, so take it with a grain of salt.)

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If you take it with a grain of salt it's less dangerous than pure water

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Depends on a lot of circumstances – weight, kidney and heart function, temperature, activity. The people I saw developing hyponatriema drank more than 4–5 l tap water. Desalinated water will cause problems sooner.

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It's difficult to say and drinking a bit of sweat with every sib would help a lot. The experiment is that some of your cells in a dish with excess of pure H2O will suck themselves full till they explode due to osmosis.

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I think it has something to do about demineralisation, the water would absorb minerals out of the body

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lemmy.world

I know how little I know about chemistry. The stuff on that page probably makes sense. But this just made me laugh.

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NotSteve_reply
lemmy.ca

lol

Wash and dry hands

With what, more water?

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Dihydrogen monoxide is overplayed, call it what it really is, hydrogen hydroxide

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@Ek-Hou-Van-Braai @issotm whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa why did they get to assume that it’s going to be liquid? I am reliably informed that people like to put solid dihydrogen monoxide in these containers. (I suppose gaseous dihydrogen monoxide is also possible, but I have not seen that in person in one of these containers.)

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