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StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Can someone smart clear this up for me? I thought distillation was the process of evaporating liquids then cooling them to form just the pure liquid on the other end, if this can happen in rain, could micro plastics find their way into distilled water too?

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halfapage@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Rain catches dust carried by wind when it falls.

It’s getting dirty while it condensates (sometimes on airborne particles) and while it falls.

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- Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Raindrops always condensate around a little dust particle referred to as nuclei, afaik
  
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  - HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    yeah, i’d think the nucleus for these raindrops were microplastic clouds
    
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AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Evaporation ≠ distillation.

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- Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Distillation doesn’t use filters either
  
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  - StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Maybe it’s more about sterile conditions then, in a glass tube you’re probably counting on the way that the water moves through it, I keep thinking back to the game raft and how they “distill” water, always made me wonder if it would really work
    
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Mubelotix@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
It’s actually not. It still carries all kinds of stuff

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ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
It could just be the wind that was hanging out I’m the same spot as the rain. Wind can carry stuff reeeeeaaaaaally far.

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