Joining in with everyone else. There were a few places I’ve lived that the hot water always looked milky, but once it cooled/settled out would become normal again. There’s (usually) just too much air mixed into it. If it stays cloudy, you might have too much calcium or other mineral in your water (more if your rural and using a well.)
anyone know why water coming from shower is white?
Submitted 1 year ago by covert_czar@lemmy.dbzer0.com to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
s38b35M5@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A literal shower thought
lemmefixdat4u@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The solubility of air in water depends on temperature. When water that is saturated with air is heated, the air will bubble out of the water as the solution becomes supersaturated. We’ve all seen this watching a pot of water heating on the stove. Long before it boils, bubbles of air start forming on the bottom and sides of the pot.
In your shower, hot and cold water start out saturated, but when they mix, the warm water can be supersaturated, causing tiny bubbles that make the water look milky.
ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This would be a question for ELI5 or NoStupidQuestions
BellaDonna@mujico.org 1 year ago
I have no idea what you’re talking about at all. Water from my shower, or any shower I remember doesn’t and hasn’t ever looked white. This must be…a regional or water quality problem. Limestone in the water? Well water? I feel like you’re about to learn this isn’t a typical experience for many people.
NPC@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nah, just air mixed in. Not all that weird honestly, just a turbulent water stream
BellaDonna@mujico.org 1 year ago
Estás seguro? That’s not sound right
Resol@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Are you sure that’s water? Or are you unknowingly showering with milk? Or semen? Or glue? Or some other white liquid?
dukethorion@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Do you live anywhere near a natural gas extraction (tracking) site?
dukethorion@lemmy.one 1 year ago
*Fracking
NPC@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A shower head often just puts a lot of air in the stream, that’s what makes it white!/cloudy
newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It’s not. Either it’s contained or it’s just bubbles.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is it only white in the shower, and normal at the other faucets?
safesyrup@feddit.ch 1 year ago
Fill a glass with the shower water and notice that it isn‘t white. It if indeed is however, it is contaminated.
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
This. Also let it sit for a bit. If the white colour goes away then the water just had dissolved oxygen in it that was bubbling out.
paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
This reminds me this was how our water always was in southern California. Straight from the tap it would be foggy and even fizz a bit as the air escaped. You just let it sit a minute or squeeze some lemon, just fine, but out of town guests were appalled. Maybe it’s the same now but with those fridge door dispensers you can’t tell.
Especially_the_lies@startrek.website 1 year ago
When I was at summer camp as a kid, we always referred to the water as either “milk water” or “carbonated water” because of that effect.