Re: my professor says that water is a conductor, i disagree

Date: Tue Jan 30 16:41:55 2001
Posted By: Dan Berger, Faculty Chemistry/Science, Bluffton College
Area of science: Chemistry
ID: 980820329.Ch

Message:


Sorry, unless your professor specified more carefully than you did you both
lose.

Water is a conductor if it contains electrolytes, that is, solutes that form 
ions in aqueous solution. The more concentrated the solution, the better a 
conductor it is. Pure, deionized water is an insulator.

                                           Dan Berger
                                           MadSci Administrator

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