@Blissey1  

 
Thats sorta what we were talking about. Which is why pure water (distilled that is) doesn’t really do anything to electronics under most circumstances. Once you introduce impurities, like minerals in bottled water, sugars in soda, or salt in ocean water; you start having more serious problems.
 
To be fair, and I’m not exactly a chemist or physicist or anything so I’m just speaking from my generic general knowledge. Even distilled water can pose a threat to electronics; it’s still conductive because of it’s ionic bonds, not as conductive as ‘regular’ water but conductive none the less. So I wouldn’t pour it over something high voltage to show off to your fiends how safe it is, cause it’d still probably pull power across it if its the path of least resistance. But low power stuff, like a tv remote or keyboard or phone or something should probably survive. I’d still turn it off and let it dry.
 
I’ve heard of electronics being saved in fact using distilled water. Like you accidentally spill something or drop in some sort of liquid and it stops work. Pull out the batteries and let it soak in distilled water to essentially rinse out the impurities that got stuck in the electronics. Then let it dry a day or two and power it on. I’ve never done it and I wouldn’t unless I had something that I didn’t think I had another way of saving. But I have heard this works. I’d go as far to say it’d probably work with rubbing alcohol too, and it’d dry faster. (Again, haven’t actually tested that.)

@liracrowned  
I though the problem with water was that your average tap water has all sorts of stuff dissolved in it, stuff that gets left behind on the electronics when the water evaporates and messes everything up

@Flying Pancake  

 
Although, one last bit about the water thing.
 
An issue with water, despite purity, is that its stick because of ionic bonds and what not. So it would be hard to remove all of it from say a phone you decide to drop into distilled water. Water can cause some metals to rust and/or corrode. Which may or may not cause problems later on. So you’d need to use wd-40 to displace the water to make sure its ‘dry’, then you’d probably wanna use a high proof alcohol to remove the wd-40 residue…
 
Ya. Best just keep it dry in the first place so you don’t have to dump loads of other liquids on it.

@Flying Pancake  

 
Honestly not something I’d previously considered, but ya. It’s just hydrogen and oxygen, 2 non-conductive gasses. So that makes sense.
 
But water bonds with just about anything so it’ll pick up impurities pretty quick I’d think. But I mean, unless your leaving your electronic devices in distilled water as some kind of weird long term storage system, i’d probably be alright.
 
Anyway, the weird takeaway lesson no one expected to get from this image. Wet things aren’t inherently bad for your electronics. Now you know.

@liracrowned  
That makes sense; I tend to just think “wet=bad, flammable=bad” when it comes to computers, but thinking about it now, you’ve got a much more reasonable thought process on the subject. And I guess that technically, water isn’t really even a problem, since completely pure water isn’t conductive either.

@Flying Pancake  

 
I believe thats right. About the ICBM’s anyway. But ya, wd-40 is generally non-conductive, which is really the only reason waters a danger in the first place, not cause its wet. Getting metal dust in you electronics would ruin it too, but thats a lot less common so no one thinks about that, just ‘wet things’.
 
That said, not something I’ve really advice, not for a computer anyway. Alcohol is way better to use for cleaning PC bits if a can of air isn’t doing the job or say you need to clean off wd-40 residue… You could theoretically put a PC in a vat of high grade rubbing alcohol while it’s running and it still run because it doesn’t (on it’s own anyway) conduct electricity. Again, not something I’d really advise, but technically possible. Plus it dries super fast and leaves no residue behind.

@liracrowned  
Neat, I would not have guessed that. I’d known that it was originally used for rockets (ICBMs, right?), but I’d thought that spraying it into a computer might damage it, or worse, potentially start a fire.

@Flying Pancake  
Then you’d be surprised to learn that wd-40 is pretty much a safe thing to use in electronics. The WD part actually stands for “Water Displacement” and was originally used on rocket parts to prevent them from corroding if I recall correctly. That said you wouldn’t want to put much in your computer on purpose because wd-40 leaves lasting residue, the part that keeps things from corroding and makes doors less squeaky and so on, that will attract dust. A spray or two by mistake wont kill it, but I can make a mess.
 
Anyway, ya.
 
And it was invented in 1953… /HistoryLesson  
(Just looked up the date for the joke…)

@liracrowned  
Ah, okay, that makes sense. (And I’d hate to think what would happen if WD-40 got sprayed into a computer.)

@Flying Pancake  

 
Oh, it started cause there was a can of lubricant, like wd40, that looked very similar to a can of compressed air. She’d put them all together in one place and I nearly used the can of lubricant in a computer. Somehow I just started talking about random little facts about compressed air.

@liracrowned  
I was trying to guess the overall topic of the conversation based on the dialog shown. I probably should have been more clear, sorry about that.

Ah, but oxygen cannot be in a liquid state at room temperature, even when compressed. Same as nitrogen, and since nitrogen on average makes up 78% of air while oxygen around 20%, you cannot compress air at room temperature with current technology (That I know of). source
 
In addition, compressed air is not actually the same as normal atmosphere (meaning it’s not mostly nitrogen and partly oxygen), it’s a combination of various gasses. I guess she could be talking about compressed air as the gasses contained within, which would technically be correct since they are in a liquid state… source
 
Huh, I guess this is right, meaning I wasted my time.

@Flying Pancake  

 
What are we guessing here?

I’m going to guess…  
“Why you can freeze stuff with an air can?”

@Jerkface  

 
I’d be the Twilight here.

So who’s who in this?  
Are you Twilight, or is your mom?