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Originally Posted by TOB9595
Hmmmm,
I am thinking that I can put a bowl of tap water next to my bundles of beads. Keep it in an airtight closure. A Humidor or a Tupperware type piece.
The beads absorb the moisture that the bowl of water gives off in the closed container.
The water, free from minerals and contaminants, will be absorbed by the beads until the beads reach stasis at 65 and 70.
Is what I think accurate???
Thanks
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As a former almost-chemist (long story), the only other thing I would add is that the water has dissolved gasses in it, mostly chlorine. If you put the water on the stove and give it a quick boil, it will be saturated with water vapor, which would displace the other gasses. It won't be distilled, of course, and the minerals will still be in it, but they won't have any transport mechanism to get over to the beads. You could also just leave the tap water in an open container of some kind for 24-48 hours and get pretty much the same effect as boiling, though. The channels in the beads may be sized such that they won't absorb anything except the water molecules, at least in any significant quantity, but I think I would still let the water sit out before exposing the beads to it.