Is rain water conductive

Answer 1

Rain water is not pure water. Rain water contains small amounts of ions as minerals and salt as well as pollutants. This means that it is a solution of ions, making it an electrolyte (conducts electricity).

Answer 2

yes. it gets put into a chamber which turnes turbines that create electricity

water has the ability to conduct electricity because it is able to self ionise meaning that a small number of hydronum (H3O+) and hydroxide (OH-) are present in pure water.

Answer 3

Yes it is. Pure water can be a good insulator but it does not take much contamination to make it conductive and the atmoshpere is fall of a lot of contaminents so rain water will conduct because it is not pure.

Answer 4

Pure water is a poor conductor of electricity, and is in fact an electrical insulator. However, water almost always contains dissolved electrolytes. The ions from these electrolytes conduct electricity through the solution. Even in water that has been distilled, carbon dioxide from the air will dissolve and react to form carbonate species and hydronium ions, thus rendering the solution conductive. Removing the dissolved gases can be difficult, with even 50 distillations insufficient for obtaining pure water, as the gases are more volatile than the water.

Answer 5

Pure water actually doesn't conduct electricity. But when ions are dissolved in it like salt or many other minerals it does conduct electricity... That is because water molecules need to connect to ions in order to conduct electricity

Answer 6

Rainwater is a weak conductor of electricity due to the presence of minerals and impurities it picks up as it falls through the atmosphere. However, it is not as conductive as seawater or other electrolyte solutions.

Answer 7

Rainwater is a good Conductor of Electricity.

Answer 8

Water conducts electricity because it has loose electrons able to easily transfer from one water molecule to another.

Answer 9

Nope, it's as good as good water.
Very poor conductors (literally insulator) of electricity as there are no charged particles (free ions) to conduct electricity