Making distilled water from a forest spring
Channel: Avian Yuen
Date: 2022-04-24

Making distilled water from the forest spring water I got last year. Used for making other ingredients down the line.

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More details below.

Background:
Clean water will be necessary in a lot of future chemical steps, so I started getting it at the beginning of the Aspirin from Scratch series. In this video, I finally finish the process.

Contents: 
0:00 Intro
0:33 Our spiritual connection to water and salt
1:02 Foraging for water
2:07 Apparatus
4:01 Procedure
4:26 Life and growth
6:31 Measurement
6:58 Yield calculation
7:51 Taste test
8:40 Summary
9:05 Clean up

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Avian Yuen (YouTube)
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Avian Yuen (YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr93-05aYRo

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