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Why is distilled water neutral?

Updated: 8/10/2023
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7y ago

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The number of hydroxyl ions and hydrogen ions in pure water is balanced; but a perfect neutral distilled water (pH=7,000) is only hypothetical because water absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and the pH decrease under 7.

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If water is considered neutral, distilled water is "pure" water. Actually, water has a positional bias to its charges (dipole like).

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It carries neither a positive or negative charge.

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it is a neutral

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