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From: elf@cylixd.UUCP (Leonard Bottleman)
Newsgroups: net.sci
Subject: Re: Question about Electricity
Message-ID: <445@cylixd.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 11:20:18 EST
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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.
>
>						Sean.

Water self hydrolyzes into H and OH ions: so even if you managed to get
pure H2O, it wouldn't remain that way for more than an instant.

						Leonard Bottleman

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