Ultra-pure water can kill you
[Via Boing Boing]
David Rees, author of How to Sharpen Pencils and creator of the Get Your War On comic strip, learns how to make ultra-pure water. He learns that ultra pure water does not like to be pure. If you drink it, it will try to grab electrolytes from your blood.
[More]
Those of us who work with ultra-pure water know this but it would be a great to see this used in a murder mystery – watch the CSI guys figure out that the victim was killed by water ;-)
A Man With A Ph.D. 