Wednesday, 13 March 2013

Why does distilled water not conduct electricity, whereas rain water does?

Question 7. Why does distilled water not conduct electricity, whereas rain water does?
Answer: 
Distilled water cannot conduct electricity because it does not contain ions while rain water conducts electricity as it contains ions due presence of dissolved salts in it.

8 comments:

  1. why cant hydrolysis happen to distilled water? this way H+ and OH- ions can be formed from distilled water also and it can then conduct electricity just as HCL >>> H+ and Cl- will conduct

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  2. It is quite a good question

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  3. We using ro purified water in battery Battery has no bad effect on its working. Why

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