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["Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>]

On 6/27/06, Bevanron <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:
. Any compound with a lower boiling point
> than water will be added to your distillate, so your distilled water is
> not really that pure, unless you verify that the base source contains no
> VOC's to begin with.

It's been many, many years since I distilled anything, but if your
water contains compounds with substantially lower boiling points than
water, you could first boil the water and then distill it. Of course,
you wouldn't want to breathe the air... but there's always something.

Marie