Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utcsri.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!randy From: randy@utcsri.UUCP (Randall S. Becker) Newsgroups: net.sci Subject: Re: Question about Electricity Message-ID: <1622@utcsri.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Nov-85 15:24:58 EST Article-I.D.: utcsri.1622 Posted: Sun Nov 10 15:24:58 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 16:43:46 EST References: <621@hlwpc.UUCP> <662@petrus.UUCP> <714@alberta.UUCP> <2358@ukma.UUCP> <1843@watdcsu.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 22 > In article <2358@ukma.UUCP> slg@ukma.UUCP (Sean Gilley) writes: > > > > > > Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity. The reason you need to > >be careful with electricity around water is that the minerals in solution > >within the water are conductors. > > > I'm afraid your wrong Sean. Pure water is a conductor. It's conductivity > is enhanced by certain impurities, in the same way that > silicon's conductivity is increased by certain dopant's. > > Paul L. Just to provide clarification to this point, water is an extremely weak electrolyte. Distilled water is 0.0000002 % ionized at 25C. (Ref: Chemistry: A Conceptual Approach, Mortimer, 1979) Randy -- Randall S. Becker Usenet: ..!utcsri!randy CSNET: randy@toronto