An Interesting Experiment

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i believe i learned in chem last year that it actually isnt helpful at all to drink distilled water... like its better to drink tap than distilled.

[seefoodlover]

Ok the long awaited results. I was delayed for a couple days because I've been busy and etc.

So the results are kinda impartial, but it's something.

I only smoked for about 20 minutes, because I was not using a phunnel and I didn't like the flavor, and I burned the bowl, ya bad night. Anyway...

So after 20 mins and making sure the juices did not drip down.

With a starting purity of 001, the ending result was...



011

That being 11 parts per million (PPM)

Know this...

your average tap water has 200 to 400 PPM of whatever in it.

carbon filters or bottled water has 50 to 175.

Just some fun facts.

Will definately be doing a more thorough experiment of this later. But this will whet your interest for right now.

[liquidglass]

Ok the long awaited results. I was delayed for a couple days because I've been busy and etc.

So the results are kinda impartial, but it's something.

I only smoked for about 20 minutes, because I was not using a phunnel and I didn't like the flavor, and I burned the bowl, ya bad night. Anyway...

So after 20 mins and making sure the juices did not drip down.

With a starting purity of 001, the ending result was...



011

That being 11 parts per million (PPM)

Know this...

your average tap water has 200 to 400 PPM of whatever in it.

carbon filters or bottled water has 50 to 175.

Just some fun facts.

Will definately be doing a more thorough experiment of this later. But this will whet your interest for right now.

Now I have an idea. If there is anyway to not inhale the smoke and put it into a bottle of water, then test that water...hmmmm

[Joshmmc]

will be almost impossible to test it 100% accurately, but even if you manage to and reach something conclusive, it wont be significant enough to change the way most people smoke in my opinion.

[liquidglass]

i don't think we're attempting to change how people smoke, he was just curious how it'd turn out

[Tati]

Thats very interesting...
So this thing is a filter that measures the crap in your water?
Does it filter tap water from 200 ppms to 000 ppms?

[Bulldog_916]

Looks like that means that the scientists have been right, water doesnt really filter anything out of the smoke. Just cools it and makes it easy to inhale. That's at least what that experiment tells me.

[ryno]

On the topic of water and hookah, does anyone know if well water makes hookah taste different? i usually use bottled water, but sometimes my city tap water.

[Bulldog_916]

No difference imo. Tap water and bottled water, you're just paying more for the bottle.

[mattathayde]

Drinking distilled water is very bad for you, most people how have tried it often don't like the taste of distilled water. In the words of my high school teacher " you need all the crap in the water for it to taste good."

About the testing. I really doubt that it would be helpful b/c the meter only reads salts, because the salts are the compounds that conduct. Most of the compounds that are "cooked" during a session are organic, which the meter would not be dected by the meter. Thus the only way to figure out what is in the water after a session is to concentrate the cpds in the water and run a test that will detect organic cpds. Then we would know what the water filters out.
that's my 2 cents

well i wont say very bad but i will give you some extra base for that argument that distilled water is slightly acidic. it is better for your body to be slightly basic (ph wise) because viruses and cancer do not survive well in basic states where they thrive in acidic states

-matt