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Meet the real spin doctors: Scientists tell H2O to chill out so they can separate isomers

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Re: One possible use

"The problem with super pure water is that it eats your boiler tubes (which is why it is called hungry water)."

I'm not claiming to be an expert, but I seem to remember reading that drinking too much distilled water will do much the same to your bones - something to do with dissolved calcium in body fluids being at equilibrium with that in bone.

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