What is the difference between freshwater and distilled water ???

Question

What is the difference between freshwater and distilled water ???

Also what would happen to teh water level / waterline if a big ship was to land in the ocean and set sail >?>???

Answer 1

Technically, any water that is not salty is freshwater - over time it is just a name given to water on the land that is resulted from the rain (rainwater, water from the streams, ground water, lakes, ponds, rivers etc.). And if you produce non salty water from seawater or brackish water (too much salt than usual), it is also called fresh water. Distilled water, by its name is simply non salty water produced by evoporation - it is freshwater per say, but given freshwater is an umbrella name, distilled water is very pure freshwater.

the big ship was to land in the ocean from "land", the sea level raises a tiny bit  locally and eventually be even tinier as the raise will have to spread to the whole world of connected seas, still resulting in a theoretically ultra tiny raise (simple math will be to calculate the total mass of ship, total surface area of the ocean world wide and figure out how much water raise will be equalent to produce the weight difference and a bunch of physics like that).

I suggest if you see a very old roman/greek dude who's running around naked yelling eureka, eureka, eureka..., ask him whether his name is archemedis (sp?), and if so, he can explain it better than i can :-). Or you could just search google or wiki for "archemedis" (again, sp?) "principle"...

Answer 2

Distilled water is literally water that has been boiled, evaporated and condensed - leaving all chemicals, toxins and waste behind and creating pure, clean water.  Distillation will remove bacteria, viruses, cysts, heavy metals, radionuclides, organics, inorganics, and particulates.

Distillation is literally the method seen in nature, whereby: the sun heats the water on the earth's surface, the water is turned into a vapour (evaporation) and rises, leaving contaminants behind, to form clouds. As the upper atmosphere drops in temperature the vapours cool and convert back to water to form water droplets. Then once the droplets fall as rain (precipitation) the cycle starts over again.

This is exactly the same process in a water distiller - the tap water is heated to boiling point so the impurities are separated from the water, and the water then becomes steam. This is then condensed back into pure liquid form. The impurities remain as residue and are removed leaving 100% pure, pH balanced water.

Answer 3

distilled water is de-ionized, freshwater isnt.

Answer 4

A Freshwater body contains low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. It is an important renewable resource, necessary for the survival of most terrestrial organisms, and required by humans for drinking and agriculture, among many other uses.Distilled water is water that has virtually all of its impurities removed through distillation. Distillation involves boiling the water and re-condensing the steam into a clean container, leaving contaminants behind. :)