If you not getting volitiles , it won't matter.  Can't remove what's not
there. If the contaminant fraction is very close to the water fraction, you
might not be able to remove it with a table top distiller.
 What is there, then, becomes a question.
 I would think that freshly distilled water would just love to dissolve
into it any gas around it...but that should take some time.
  Some atmospheric pollutants are quite soluable in water. I imagine that
traces of sulpher dioxide would be hell on silver ions.
Does it make any difference if you let the condensor drip into a sealed
container?
 Someone mentioned that touching the electrodes made a difference.  Could
be a high sulpher diet..eggs, MSM or DMSO metabolites etc?  It makes no
difference when I touch them.
 

Ode

At 01:16 PM 11/9/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi ode,
>  I tried discarding the first cup or so of water out of the still, 
>didn't make any difference. Might have known it wouldn't work here, huh?
>sol
>
>Ode Coyote wrote:
>
>> Using a charcoal pre-filter is a good thing as it will suck up most of the
>>volitiles, particulates, chlorine and such.
>> Using a charcoal post filter...not.
>>
>> Discarding the first few oz of water will help rid the result of volitiles
>>too.
>>
>>ode
>>  
>>
>>  
>>
>
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