Finding ultra-pure water locally...


I've been reading up on record cleaning, and there seems to be something of a consensus that rinsing with ultra pure water / lab-grade water / triple distilled water (I'm assuming these are just different names for essentially the same thing?) helps. Where does one buy such water locally? I would imagine paying postage to ship 10 lbs of water would be rather high. I'm in the San Francisco Bay Area. Tks!

John
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Hello, to answer your first query, no, ultra pure water, lab-grade water and distilled water are not the same thing.

Lab grade water is a collective term for different types of water used in laboratories, namely type-I, type-II & type-III water.

Ultra Pure Water or Type-I Water is the purest form of water i.e. water without any dissolved components or solvents, it undergoes 4 stages of purification and is used in critical laboratory applications. 

Distilled water is the water that has been treated with the distillation technique, which is the oldest water purification technique.

Moving on to the second question, I guess you could look for a laboratory consumable suppliers. They deal in various lab supplies from chemicals to solvents and might also provide ultrapure water.

I hope my answer was of help, Thanks.