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Does distilled water conduct electricity?

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distilled water is pure H20 therefore there are no minerals or other crap in it that will conduct electricity. although technically you can run a very high voltage circuit with few amps through the few ions it has, it will not conduct a circuit your thinking of, so no :)

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