How the curling ice in Beijing was made for the Olympics
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Re: How the curling ice in Beijing was made for the Olympics
#2The article doesn't explain why pure water will burn your throat, unfortunately.
Re: How the curling ice in Beijing was made for the Olympics
#3The article doesn't explain why pure water will burn your throat, unfortunately.
I can't imagine it would. You can drink distilled water for instance, with no ill effects other than it not tasting very good at all.
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#4Re: How the curling ice in Beijing was made for the Olympics
#5The article doesn't explain why pure water will burn your throat, unfortunately.
clickbait.. Water has a low pH when you remove all soluble minerals. However, w/o minerals it has no buffer capacity and pH will raise very easily. therefore it is not going to actually burn you.
Re: How the curling ice in Beijing was made for the Olympics
#6Two things that weren’t obvious to me until I started playing:
1. The ice conditions make a huge difference and are a bit different every game, every sheet, and from start to end of a game.
2. Every stone is subtly different and to play exceptionally well you eventually learn to keep track of the characteristics of each one.
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#7> the deputy ice technician for the curling events, said, “it would burn your insides.”
Simply not true at all.
Quora can explain how water is not dangerous to you (remember when it was Yahoo Answers)
It might taste different to what you expect... if you haven't drunk pure water before.
Also doubt they get it to lab level. And I would expect air is the problem not impurities, but not sure, probably related, impurities create air bubbles?
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#8The article doesn't explain why pure water will burn your throat, unfortunately.
Osmotic pressure. Same reason why it is a bad idea to swim in Super-Kamiokande. The older experiment IMB eventually failed because the ultra pure water attacked and breached the liner separating it from the ambient salt.
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#9The article doesn't explain why pure water will burn your throat, unfortunately.
I’m no chemist, but it’s likely just deionized water. It can irritate your mouth and throat since the ion-dipole force in water makes it electrostatically attract ions, and can likely pull them from the cells on the surface of your mouth/throat. I don’t fully know if that’s the reason it would burn because I don’t remember how strong these forces actually are, but if I remember correctly it’s dependent on the ion and the difference in charge.
Re: How the curling ice in Beijing was made for the Olympics
#10I can't read the article. They are using probably demineralized water and not distilled water, because the process is easier and cheaper. Anyway, in both case Wikipedia doesn't say it will burn your throat:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distilled_water#Health_effects
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purified_water#Mineral_consump...