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What is water's conductivity?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Conductivity water is water purified so that it has very low conductivity. (Makes perfect sense, right?)

I have only seen it as a historical term until recently (and it drove me nuts trying to find out what it is-- probably just like you). It is so called because the water itself has a low conductivity, but then you dissolve a solute into the water and measure the conductivity of the solution. So the water is the matrix, hence "conductivity water." In the older documents, there isn't a specification that I have found other than simply having conductivity that is "small compared to the value being measured."

In the more recent papers that I read, the term "conductivity" is accompanied by the term "ultrapure" and the specification of having a resistance greater than 18.2 mega-ohms.

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