Jim,
Why is distilled water no good? It doesn't have any minerals,
but I
assume rainwater doesn't either. Just curious.
John Carnes

Rainwater is FULL of minerals. Water is called the "universal
solvent." It dissolves almost everything that it touches, and as
it floats as vapor in the clouds, then passes through the air as
it falls, rain picks up everything it finds -- good, bad or
indifferent. Rain in the country (usually) is better than rain
in the city -- or rain that falls downwind from an electrical
power plant, paper mill, or chemical factory. Most rain in the
USA is slightly acid. In parts of Canada and in Scandinavia it
can be quite acid.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Our life is
frittered away by detail . . . . Simplify! Simplify. -- Henry
David Thoreau - Walden

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