On Saturday, January 20, 2018 at 9:32:21 PM UTC-5, rickman wrote:
> Why is power relevant? We are talking about drying a phone. The battery
> will be out, the SIM card will be out and of course the cover is off. What
> is the significance of either the tiny amount of "salts" in typical water.
> Actually, the phone was run through the washing machine. The
> soaps/detergents in the water are much more of a factor than the latent
> dissolved solids in the tap water. I would recommend the OP rinse the phone
> under running tap water for five or ten minutes to get all the wash water
> out. The tap water won't hurt *anything* in comparison, in fact it will be
> like a person going to the spa.
Ricky!!
Are you trying to be obtuse, or is it your natural state? Tap water:
Up at our summer house, the tap water is from a shallow well, from an aquifer that is about 8' deep during a dry summer, and filtered through many feet of ground on the 'fill' side of a fast-running, rock-bound creek. Effectively, that means "Coarse sand to China". There are very few dissolved minerals nor much of anything else in that water. We filter it for silt, and we use a carbon filter 'just in case'. Year after year after year (now over 30) it tests negative for bacteria and so forth. Rinsing something in that water would be relatively low risk.
At home, the water is 10,000 year old deep-well water provided by the local utility mixed with Schuylkill River water, with a varying hardness from about 6 grains to 16 grains per gallon. 3.5 - 7 grains is considered moderately hard. 16 is 'cut it into chunks' range.
Using this water from the tap would be dangerous in the extreme.
Going to a Spa: If the two hot tubs we keep are any indication, that water will be highly mineralized - WAY up there in calcium. This is done to protect against corrosion amongst other things. Water from such a source would leave a white film when it evaporates - which would be mostly calcium. We choose to use calcium as when we drain the spa, it is not harmful, and happens to be good for certain types of native trees that are now stressed in Pennsylvania. pH neutral, highly mineralized water happens to be good for human skin, but would be pretty wretched for cell phones.
Sources of "power" in cell-phones with neither batteries nor chips:
Can you say "electrolysis"? And if you can say it, do you understand how it works, at least in theory? And, past the theory, do you have the capacity to conceive of how it might be a factor in a device with many different types of metals, surrounded with a highly salted electrolyte?
An aside to that - does anyone here remember the old-fashioned electrolysing humidifiers? Basically a Mason Jar with a plug-in Bakelite device on top that relied on the conductivity of the water to operate?
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/8b/16/cd/8b16cdc79502244129bfb85f09755820--respiratory-therapy-electrical-cord.jpg
These do not work at our summer house - and work fine at home.
Just like you jumped into the discussion on UV and eyes, with a "look-at-me, aren't I smart" - that was not, this is another similar 'contribution' born of a fundamental lack of knowledge and a need to play 'me-to'.
God help anyone that takes your advice to heart.
Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA