This might be a dumb question but I will ask anyway. When mixing/diluting my different detailing products can I use reverse osmosis water instead of distilled water? Is one better than the other?
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I would stick with distilled. Reverse osmosis (RO) forces the water through a semi-permeable membrane to remove impurities. The membrane pore size determines the size of impurities that are removed. However, there are further steps that should be used to get truly good water, like a carbon filter to trap organic compounds and ultra-violet light to kill microbes. So, if you don't know all the steps taken, the water may still have stuff in it you don't want, like chlorine.
Well I don't know about microbes and such. But most any decent RO system will have a carbon stage as well. I've been into aquariums for a good 20 years, planted tanks and such, and RO water is much preferred for fish tanks, where THERE you cannot have any chlorine at all. (Unless you have goldfish.... they'll darned near live in the toilet!)
I'd suspect that OTC gallons of RO water will have been processed with everything that normal filtered water would be, plus of course passed through the RO membranes.
I use mostly ro water except for bottle fills . even though I have a cr spotless , my ro dries spot free . my ro comes from and no it's not my personal water filter system , I have to truck this water in .
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