Hard vs. Soft Water: What's The Difference?
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- You may have heard that bathing in hard water can be bad for you, but is that true? What's the difference between hard and soft water?
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"Apparently, all tap water is not created equal. Some water is deemed 'hard,' and other is considered to be 'soft.' And here's the confusing part: Hard water isn't better than soft in all situations, and soft isn't always preferable. Confused yet? We explain the ins and outs of each below."
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"Hard water contains dissolved magnesium and calcium ions. These make it more difficult for the water to form a lather with soap. Temporary hardness is caused by dissolved calcium hydrogen carbonate (which is removed by boiling)."
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“Hard or soft, how am I supposed to know the difference, they both look the same” I felt that one…😩😭
Same
Hard water produce less lather.On the other hand soft water can produce lather easily. This might help you
@@kishorbhattarai2148 I think the joke went over your head
@@thesaurusrex7919 What do you mean to say
@@kishorbhattarai2148 🍆
Her pacing is just right. Doesn't feel rushed like the others.
Gave me that feel as well.
Same i wish i was like that!
Looks to me like she is standing still.
Nah, it’s slow
Pacing? Didn't see her walking
Water becomes hard when you excite it.
.-.
Ethan Roberts like...
My water became hard when i saw sapna on the screen
nah. it gets wet
Erekt
Hard water happened to us. We moved from one town to another and almost immediately we could taste the difference and feel it. Our scalps now have red rashes and itchy, white flakes. The water burns our eyes too. We installed a shower filter and it was so heavenly to go back to normal. No more flakes or rashes!
What kind of water filter did you buy? very interested in knowing! Thanks!!
Speaking of hard vs. soft water: I lived in Colorado for about a year (some years ago) and rented a place that had the hardest water I had ever showered in. The soap would not lather, but my friend from Texas put up such a complaint about the water's hardness that I thought for sure that he was exaggerating the matter. It wasn't until I went with him to Texas that I found that the water was so soft that I thought that I was still covered in soap when I bathed in it. I never thought that water could get that soft.
Philip Royd what do you think the water in idaho???
jay fawn: I'm sure it depends on the location. Soda Springs, Idaho has got to have plenty of hard water (all that buildup around the geyser), but I know Southwestern Washington had plenty of it since I grew up there.
Was there bubbles when you rubbed your skin
Sapna is a great host. I love how clearly she speaks
I like her! She's a great presenter, interesting, engaging, and enthusiastic. (And her voice is easy to listen to: No vocal fry.)
I thought they were gonna talk about different water pressure while taking a shower😐
The Escape Project me too, great thumbnail use to confuse us 😊
The Escape Project meeee too!!😏
The Escape Project IKR !!!!!
so did I
Me too😛
i wonder if dnews reads these flat outdated jokes
if they did they'd close the channel
I see them reply to comments like this every now and then. Mostly Trace. But yea the jokes are very poor and awkward lol. Awkward children.
@2:44 Boiling water will not cause calcium carbonate to evaporate. Calcium carbonate doesn't even evaporate, instead, it will decompose into calcium oxide and carbon dioxide. However, for the decomposition of calcium carbonate to occur, the solution has to be heated to ~600 °C, at which point all the water would have evaporated out. So, instead what you intended to say was people distill water to make it soft and not boil it to evaporate calcium carbonate.
references:
Ciênc. Tecnol. Aliment. vol.27 no.3 Campinas July/Sept. 2007
J. Chem. Eng. Data, 2010, 55 (9), pp 3779-3785
Looks like the researchers may have used this GCSE lesson guide, but the script writer may have got their information mixed up.
This video is far better and more accurate as far as the actual Chemistry goes...
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Spot the similarities...
I was going to ask how on earth would CaCO3 evaporate TvT
Hard water is ice
Adam Baggaley
yes but that has nothing to do with this video
Solid water is ice.
Adam Baggaley but how is it hard if you cant touch it directly? you cant tell xD it still scratches and crumbles.
How to avoid hair fall from hard water in home and outside pl give me solutions pl
Ice is solid water
She speaks so clearly and she's so pretty :). She's a great host
HungryAfricanKid What do you mean? I was just giving a compliment? I love science! Plus I'm a girl..
Violin pixch don't let the haters get you down lol
Deven Colburn Haha I won't XD
Violin just complimented her, that's not in anyway sexual....
HungryAfricanKid You're*
i lived in an area of europe with VERY hard water for about three years and hated it. after you wash the dishes or take a shower you better dry off any surfaces or glasses IMMEDIATELY or you will get super hard, disgusting crusts of... salt i guess? or calcium? EVERYWHERE!!!!!
it sounds miniscule but trust me: soft water for the win. gosh did i despise cleaning in that place...
Jiggle Diggle Greece?
south of Europe?
Jiggle Diggle soft water doesn't get rid of the soap easily
I noticed that when i took shower in a hotel. The water in my home is hard water as it can easily contaminate the glass. I can clean the soap off my skin very easily. But some hotel's water is soft water and it took me longer time to wash off the soap.
Germany? My Water in the south of Germany is super hard. It destroys Kettles and it blocks the faucets so hardly any Water comes out of them. :(
THANK YOU
I was trying to study about this in my textbook but it was way too hard for me to understand. This helped me out a lot.
I though hard water was ice
Nguyễn Thánh Nhân that is solid water. ice is not very hard and you cant touch it directly.
Matacomo Como 124 1208 you don’t get it
tbh hard water even mildly hard water for people with eczema sucks. Soft Water please.
Dulce G dude I feel it one time my hands got so blistered they thought I had severe burns and they popped them but they literally just kept filling again tmi but I had to cut the skin off the top and cover them in ointment 😂😅
IKR!! Once my right hand was so bad that it had to covered in bandages and the school nurse nearly fainted because my hand looked like it was burnt or something. Notetaking was a pain in the ass 😂
hard water enema??? ewww thats nasty
Chubby McButtcheeks Eczema my pal, it's not pleasant. Be grateful for not having to deal with it.
Dulce G it does suck, however I can't say I've really noticed a difference between hard and soft water with mine, I still get flare ups as bad as I did with hard water
she's soo gorgeous *.*
She makes my water go hard.
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I used to have iron rich water at my old place. I had to boil and then filter the water, leaving significant amounts of red residue in the filter (regular coffee filters worked pretty well). Unfiltered water used for bathing would give my hair slightly reddish color (instead of light blond).
This host and John Green are the best.
THE BEST!!!
LE ROY Apple Trace!!!!
LE ROY Apple Is it just me, or can you only stand John Green, because he's awesome, and not Hank?
yup
Enjoyable, concise, and informative! Nice :D
the water here in Chile is so hard it's basically solid
lain2k3 hah.
hhooo it causes all the diseases too
Niggas over there drinking rocks
Water is not the only hard thing when I look at her..
nice
Hard as fuck
Rikkert of course..........
of course
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Ikr shes acc so hot
Awesome explanation, I've always wondered what the difference was!
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Whenever I bathe in soft water it feels like I couldn't rinse the soap off my skin. It almost feels like uncomfortably soft/smooth/slippery/oily.
2:44 How can one boil off calcium carbonate? Doesn't this qualify as a mineral, and therefore get left behind when the water evaporates? Or does calcium carbonate flash off into a gas before water does? Or was this a inaccuracy in the script?
Venger Voldur I was about to say the same thing 😂
Yeah, pretty sure they meant distilling the water would separate the calcium carbonate. ie collecting the steam and condensing it.
i beleive ... a bit of both: carbonate can evaporate as carbon dioxide, but calcium will be left behind, so hardness remains unchanged.
lol ikr wtf comon this is a science channel they need to do better than that
was looking for this. Guess she mean distilling the water.
I grew up in and live in a hard water area. We have lots of limestone. I've never had any problem getting soap to lather or feeling it was rinsed off. But when I travel I sometimes experience 'soft' water that doesn't seem able to dissolve the soap and leaves my body with a slimy feel in the shower, not like here. What causes this?
Boiling water to make it soft? I guess it doesn't make sense as you've mentioned the hydrologic cycle that allows water to evaporate and leave minerals behind.
Imanuel Aaron Mogie Your comment almost warrants a response but the video answers it, just pay attention.
Well here's the deal m8. Hard water contains Calcium Bicarbonate and Magnesium Bicarbonate. These two minerals cause "temporary hardness". When you apply heat or..boil the water, in case of Calcium Bicarbonate it decomposes to Calcium Carbonate which is a precipitate and sticks to the wall of the container and Carbon Dioxide. And almost same with Magnesium Bicarbonate.
CaHCO3 ---->(under heat) CaCo3(V) + CO2
MgHCO3 --->(under heat) Mg(OH)2 + CO2
Balance the equations yourself pls.
she has a really nice and soothing voice.
I live in the far North East of Scotland and we have soft water, naturally. It's better for washing not only clothes but yourself, especially hair and skin. When I travel to London where they have hard water, I always feel dirty no matter how much I wash my self. I've also noticed that the local populace have not got the same clear skin that people have back home and their hair isn't as shiny!
Really
Oh, Sapna, My love, you make my day one bit brighter with your smile. (*cries tears of joy*)
Sapna is so dope! Glad we have a new host joining the crew!
I love the term "generally safe" :P
"Y'all might be safe...in general you are...We don't know for sure..."
-USA's gov
Wow, lots of great info; thanks! Wish you had mentioned home water softener systems. Perhaps in another vid?
I've heard before that one of the waters come out of the faucet with a kind of whitish color to it, and when you pour it into a bucket it looks like it has tons of small bubbles in it keeping this milky color for a minute before looking again like normal water.
I've seen it before, but I was wondering if this is a generally good indicator?
Fascinating. Thank you.
If i was water and i saw you id have a higher than normal concentration of minerals.
Best pickup line ever
For the video version of TLDR... Hard water is mainly due to calcium and magnesium in your water. Hard water is not toxic. The main issue is that is can leave residues on counters, plates, etc. The real problem can be that scaling on boilers and such can occur which can affect the life and performance of the machine. Soft water is nice and it's more aesthetically pleasing. But too soft and you'll never get soap off. Also, zero hardness in pipes is extremely bad as it can have issues with corrosion. If your water is too hard and you just plain don't like it, you can get a household water softener which works by ion exchange.
If it leaves residue on counters and plates, then imagine what it does to your insides when you consume it.
@@clintonfussell7385sugary things also leave residue, and you need sugar to survive... Your point?
Nice and informative!
Live in California so I'm used to hard water. When I go to the Pac NW and take a shower its immediately obvious how most of their water is soft. Soap rinses better and my hair is really soft and clean feeling.
What if someone gets an enema with hard water?
So, I should eat a rock if I'm lacking magnesium or calcium right?
MMA House Yeah makes sense.
MMA House nope, its not going to be available to your body to use because humans are meant to eat fruit and vegetables, roots and tubers, and distilled water.
#mystrangeaddiction
Baked rock with ketchup is amazing 😍
Lick it lol
Hard water is the reason the bottom edge of my shower curtain turns yellow brown so soon. I really need to stop buying white shower curtains.
My grandma had a soft water filter on all the water at her house. It always felt like the soap was still on my hands when washing. I liked it though...it's been many years. Do those soft water filters still exist now? I really liked it.
Oh yes. Where I live in Canada, a water softener machine is a home necessity. We dump bags of salt pellets into the water softener machine every month to soften our water.
welcome back sapna ...nice to see you again.
what a soothing voice......
I realised this when I went on holiday to Florida, where I live most water comes from reservoirs and is soft
Wonderful Explanation
You know something is wrong when your watching videos about the difference between mineral water and clean water
i constantly switched between "soft" and "hard" while watching this video.
Luísa Souza she was there helping. 😉
My water in my apartment is hard and my dishwasher doesn't have one of those spotless water things in it so I started throwing white vinegar in with my dishes and now there is no more cloudy film on the dishes.
I am now a long term resident of a nursing home. I've been here almost 7 months. The water here is somehow different from the water in other places I've lived. I've noticed that after washing my hands or showering, the water doesn't seem to rinse well, after washing my hands or showering, I still feel soapy and the soap just will not rinse off. I've always been use to feeling squeaky clean afterwards. What is the difference there.
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Asked my wife about this and was told that our soft water is in bottles in the fridge and hard water is in the freezer section.
Very informative video.
I am curious to to whether the same thing applies when the water is frozen and can you tell the weight overall by weighing the water?
Do the chemicals they put in hard water to soften it raise the pH?
Noah Nobody dunno
The chemicals react with the soluble salts present in the hard water to form insoluble compounds, which are then purified via filters and reverse osmosis. So the end result is soft water.
Noah Nobody i dont know... All i do know is that it just pollutes it more for cancer later 20 years down the glass drink.
penaus same,soft or hard
This may be a dumb question but I took a break from this channel and form a really quick look through it I couldn't find any Trace videos. is he still making videos?
can you guys do a video about the processes to soften water? I think that would be a good idea.
Bih i thought they was talking bout ice😂😂😂💯
she's beautiful just sayin
MrLiam123266 I agree
MrLiam123266 did she make your water hard?
[Emma] Is Trash That was a bad f*****ing joke.....but u kind of do that to me....
She's definitely one of the best hosts!
Thanks for this great video
I like her shirt.
Is 100% pure H2O bad for you?
I heard that pure water with no minerals is kinda hard for the body to absorb, is that true?
interesting, i also want 2 kno
drank it once (bi-distilled water which we had in our lab for experiments so it should be pure). it (ironically) extremely dries out your mouth and throat...yep that's about it. I heard that too much can kill you, but who knows
Well, some cells, like your red blood cells, can indeed burst if there is a fluid around them with too little "solvents"/salts. Could be that people think/thought that distilled water would, like in the case of red blood cells, build up too much pressure inside cells and make them burst.
No, not at all. However, because the water does not contain any minerals at all, the body may suffer from mineral deficiency. Our bodies need many different types of minerals that are necessary for our survival, like iron in the blood or calcium for our teeth and skeleton.
Artur Milano ever tried H2O2 it's delicious
Mam please suggest any chemical softener for hard water and also suitable for aquarium tank
If I replece the hard mineral with salt in my water softener and I have hypertension will it affect my tension.
Does fabric softener turn hard water into soft water?
i find it funny that fabric softener is often made out of a rough fabric
Fabric softener makes fabric softer by coating the fibres.
It has nothing to do with hard water, which is not literally hard.
Schwarzer Ritter I'm just asking if it can remove the minerals to make it soft?
Omar J
Absolutely not.
No, it doesn't. You just end up having to use more of it if you have hard water, or else your clothes come out stiff and dry. I've noticed that the fabric softener doesn't get absorbed that well by the clothing in hard water, and the detergent doesn't completely wash off either.
So if I hit water ,would the hard water feel harder than soft water?
vikas arya Only if you believe in the power of jesus christ
Mario Lamando
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slap the water like you hit that ass
Yes, definitely.
Of course
***RELATED VIDEO IDEA/QUESTION***
I've been having issues with my new generic fridge filter, for some reason after the water sits in my cup for a while (like an hour or two) it tastes really bad, like hotel water. A quick search told me that the reason hotel water tastes bad is because they filter & chlorinate the water further, but that wasn't enough so I kept digging and came across a single article a doctor wrote that explains the dangers of filtered water. Seemed like an overreaction until he got to the part where he wrote that purified water can absorb CO2 from the air therefore making it more acidic. Then I found an article refuting the assertion along with his concerns that purified water can leech minerals from your body (which would explain my constant craving for salty foods).
So now I'm at a loss, I don't think I've ever had this issue with a water filter before, is there really not enough research on this?
I learned about this in chem!! :)
:01 to :03 when a girl takes off my pantaloons
HARD only haha
I hate soft water. Never feel clean when showering in it.
I hate washing my hands with it, it always feels like I still have soap on them
***** Yeah I've got it too and my drain and shower head gets pink crust on it
Awesome video!
Love the tshirt design. Where can I get a tshirt like hers?
"Water fluctuates between hard and soft"
So do I, baby. So do I.
hard and soft look exactrly the same eh? ^^ that's what she said!
I commented the same thing 😂
Well, the one item that comes to mind, soaps and detergents don't foam or lather up. Using a water softener fixes that in an instant, hence the use of softener systems in homes using well water. Minerals, minerals, minerals. The 3 things that cause water hardness.
Very informative
clicked on this just for the thumbnail.... got tricked D:
Just seeing all the comments about how pretty she is..
Stlouis Missouri wow good thing you can shut the fuck up
Real_Liam_Payne they are a liar th ough, half true statements that got misleading.
is it safe to drink soft water? or water that has gone through water softener solution?
Fantastic video!
I have hard water in my home.
Galassia di Andromeda I have got Ice in my home as well 😋
Mario Lamando lol
Mario Lamando
so you're a smartass eh........
Norma get a water distiller so you can start preventing all your future diseases.
aye bay-bee you make my water hard ;))))))))))))
lmao
Chubby McButtcheeks ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )
yeah that is gross
I remember learning this in my honors Chem class last year, but I forgot about it. I then got asked a question on soft water vs hard water when I was playing persona 3 the other day, and I regret not seeing this video sooner.
What happens to the minerals when the water becomes rain? It sounded like she said that the hard water is evaporated (incl minerals) then becomes rain (without minerals) so what happens to the minerals while the water is up there? Or did she mean that the minerals are not evaporated and are left behind?
*Hard vs. Soft Water: What's The Difference?* That girl gave me something hard & stiff
Yo you guys hear about the man who died by a A pop can that fell on him good thing is was a soft drink. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha.
hey! can it! no one has any soda time for your jokes! ;D
Julian KMS ba dum tsss, totally not a old joke that I heard 50 times
Henry Chan ya that why i sarcastically laughed Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha.
I assume it's supposed to be "Almost died by a pop can", else there's not much of a good thing.
not funny
A++ for delivery!!
How much sodium carbonate is required for softening 1 bucket 20 litres of hard water? How much time does it takes? Is it safe toh bathe with the new soft water formed?
16 on the period table is Sulfur S not Nj? Number 21 is Scandium Sc not A? What am I missing about her shirt?
Is there anyway to get rid of lime scale?
Very nice video
And if my water dyes/rusts everything it touches because it has so much magnesium?
Are there any health benefits for drinking hard water with all those extra minerals?
Does sodium chloride get let behind during the evaporative cycle?
She explained this quite well
biggest kicker is whether one or the other is particularly healthier for you. soft water is always sold as being healthier but is it really?