is it safe to have ice in drinks

Quote: Originally posted by seaangler on 25 July 2007

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Quote: Originally posted by ocay on 25 July 2007

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In the U.K. I used distilled water to show classes that absolutely pure water does not conduct electricity.   We added little doses of salt to induce conductivity. Once a boy asked, "How about tap water? We drink it, don't we?"
We tried the experiment using water from the tap. The ammeter exploded and the whole school was plunged into darkness through the main fuse blowing.   No comment!   I have lived on Corfu for thirteen years using tap water for cleaning teeth, cooking, washing vegetables and fruit, making tea and coffee, ice for drinks, and am a rather fit eighty-year-old.

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....Pure distilled water is none conductable you say..Would you stand in it and turn 240 volts on...(Not on your life)...the one thing that you do not do is mix water with electricity...Distilled or not....I can asure you...

Of course aldernary tap water contains minerals salts and irons....We use it for breweing hear in the midlands....Chris

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I wouldn't want to try it either!!  I think the term is "ions" - it is the ions in the water that conduct.  In distilled water, with minimum ions, the potential of the circuit is much less  - but the water is bound to have some conductive impurities - unless under extreme lab conditions. I still wouldn't want to do it though, lol.

We have cooked and drunk (in small quantities) the water in Corfu without any problems.