Where can I buy deionized water?

We need it for our manufacturing plant - solder dept.

We don't know where to get it.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
Arlene

I did a google on Deionized Water and came up with some sites; CenMed $29.99 gal. or $99.45 for 5 gal. Theres plenty more sites. Check it out.

Thank you
Google usually does pretty good for me but all I could find were discussions of it.

You are a life saver; I just knew someone here could find it!

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We used to have a de-ionizer at work. It was a rental unit like a water softener that the rental people exchanged when needed...had a light that came on when loaded up with minerals or whatever.

Call Culligan.

Thank you; I ordered a gallon to get us started but will look into Culligan as well.

We have very bad well water at the plant so I don't know if a deionizer will work. We were led to believe it was expensive.

I am not sure how much we need so I ordered a gallon. In reading further it said not to open the container very often so in the future I may need to order smaller containers.

thanks for your input
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Distilled water doesn't have ions. Deionized adds acid or lye to get a neutral Ph.
Larry
Taste the dislilled water first. Sometimes it is only filtered. Some have an ingredienl label saying it is something else.

UUallace,
Thanks for the information.

We have switched to a solder that does not have lead in it. We are burning up one solder tip per day due to this new solder. We are told that if you use 3 sponges soaked with deionized water and use that to clean the tip, they will last longer.

Do you suppose the added acid or lye would help in cleaning the tip?

We also have concern about how long it will keep once opened. Although we bought a gallon, we could buy in 500 ml containers but that, of course, is more expensive.

We used reverse osmosis water at work. I don't know exactly what that is, but it's got to be at least as "good" as deionized water. They used to use D.I. water, then went to R.O. They used it in the manufacture and cleaning of rocket engine parts and high levels of cleanliness were a big concern and corrosion was a major no-no. As I recall, one of our chemistry people said that our purified water was always on the acidic side. The impression I got was that it was like it couldn't stand to be neutral pH and picked up ions from the air.

Thank you all for the great input. Amazing - the wealth of non-garden info one can get on a garden website. You all have been so helpful.
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