“Hard or soft, how am I supposed to know the difference, they both look the same” I felt that one…😩😭

Her pacing is just right. Doesn't feel rushed like the others.

Sapna is a great host. I love how clearly she speaks

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.

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!

Water becomes hard when you excite it.

I like her! She's a great presenter, interesting, engaging, and enthusiastic. (And her voice is easy to listen to: No vocal fry.)

i wonder if dnews reads these flat outdated jokes

I thought they were gonna talk about different water pressure while taking a shower😐

She speaks so clearly and she's so pretty :). She's a great host

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...

@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

Hard water is ice

tbh hard water even mildly hard water for people with eczema sucks. Soft Water please.

she's soo gorgeous *.*

I though hard water was ice

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?

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.

This host and John Green are the best.

"Wadder"

the water here in Chile is so hard it's basically solid

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.

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!

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.

Water is not the only hard thing when I look at her..

she has a really nice and soothing voice.

So, I should eat a rock if I'm lacking magnesium or calcium right?

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).

I love the term "generally safe" :P

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.

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.

How would boiling the water remove the calcium carbonate? Wouldnt the water evaporate first and cause the caco3 concentration to increase in 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?

Enjoyable, concise, and informative! Nice :D

Oh, Sapna, My love, you make my day one bit brighter with your smile. (*cries tears of joy*)

Water is also intentionally hardened by the city to reduce rust in the metal pipes. They glazed right over that one.

If i was water and i saw you id have a higher than normal concentration of minerals. Best pickup line ever

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?

Awesome explanation, I've always wondered what the difference was!

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.

Do the chemicals they put in hard water to soften it raise the pH?

Vancouver has the softest water

I didnt even watch the video, it's on a ad while I'm typing this comment. But for short (this is all you have to know). Hard water has more minerals dissolved into it, mostly stuff like Calcium, Limestone and other easily soluble substances. Soft is just more cleaner. Hard doesn't necessarily mean that it's dirty, it can be more healthier due to more minerals.

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?

You know something is wrong when your watching videos about the difference between mineral water and clean water

What if someone gets an enema with hard water?

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?

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.

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i constantly switched between "soft" and "hard" while watching this video.

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.

She explained this quite well

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.

Wow, lots of great info; thanks! Wish you had mentioned home water softener systems. Perhaps in another vid?

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?

Error: boiling doesn't evaporate Calcium Carbonate. Boiling decarbonises water. It pushes out CO2 that is dissolved in water and is within Bicarbonate ions (like soluble Calcium Bicarbonate). This leaves insoluble Calcium Carbonate in suspension. If you allow the cloudiness to settle, you can decant the water and it leaves a slightly softened water. Note that other minerals that contribute towards hardness will still remain. Main point: this video has imprecise information about the effect of boiling on hardness.

penaus same,soft or hard

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

***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 like her shirt.

:01 to :03 when a girl takes off my pantaloons

Fascinating. Thank you.

This is what I don't understand... When you Evaporate the Water, it goes from "Hard" Water, to "Soft" Water, because the process of Evaporation leaves those minerals behind. So... (I live in the U.S. so I know this doesn't apply to every country) If we get our water from a Water Company who is supposed to "Filter" the water to make it clean/safe for drinking, etc... Why is our Water companies not distilling the water instead (or "in addition" to filtering)? Distilling water is a process that takes water, and evaporates it and allows the water vapor to reform back into water again, to become "Distilled Water". Wouldn't that insure that the water would be "Soft Water"? Why are water companies not doing this? Is there something from this process that I am missing? Or is a "Filtration System" a "cheaper alternative" than "Distilling" would be? If I'm understanding things correctly, they could run it through a filter process, and then distill the water through evaporation... Then there should be no reason to have "Hard Water" issues, right? Am I missing something here???

welcome back sapna ...nice to see you again.

she's beautiful just sayin

Not a question about hard or soft water, but where did you get our shirt?

Very hard water is an issue where I live. I grew up in a house that you could also light the water on fire (due to methane content).

Does fabric softener turn hard water into soft water?

So if I hit water ,would the hard water feel harder than soft water?

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?

our water has some disolved iron in it. it leaves the sink and tub red if you run out of salt

Bih i thought they was talking bout ice😂😂😂💯

I hate soft water. Never feel clean when showering in it.

I hate showering in soft water. The soap feels like it never washed off and you have to scrub forever. Then... you're still left feeling greasy like u never took a shower.

We have lime-scale hard water in Florida.

aye bay-bee you make my water hard ;))))))))))))

hard and soft look exactrly the same eh? ^^ that's what she said!

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.

Mam please suggest any chemical softener for hard water and also suitable for aquarium tank

Just seeing all the comments about how pretty she is..

I have hard water in my home.

Wonderful Explanation

So is there a safe water to drink?

"Water fluctuates between hard and soft" So do I, baby. So do I.

clicked on this just for the thumbnail.... got tricked D:

So all of the minerals you just named... We're they good or bad for human consumption? This video didn't really tell me which is better for drinking, I prefer soft.

I hate very soft water because when I take a shower I can't get the soap off. This is because human skin has an electric charge. When a water softener does its thing, it replaces the calcium (Ca+2) and magnesium (Mg+2) with sodium (Na+1) or sometimes potassium (K+1). When soap works, it creates a stearate ion. This will only wash away if the attraction is greater than your skin. When the calcium and magnesium is removed, the sodium doesn't have a strong enough bond to wash it away. It took me forever to find that info because the companies that make water softeners tell you that it's the natural oils from your skin when you use soft water. They don't want you to know that the soap is stuck to you.

*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.

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.

Totally didn't think it was about is guys when I first read the title.

16 on the period table is Sulfur S not Nj? Number 21 is Scandium Sc not A? What am I missing about her shirt?

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?

can you guys do a video about the processes to soften water? I think that would be a good idea.

Is most bottled water soft? Some people say they think bottled water tastes better.

If you've got problems with limescale, there is a simple way to clean it off - hydrochloric acid. It is extremely effective. Some toilet cleaners are just hydrochloric acid, so you can use those, or you can buy more concentrated acid somewhere else. Don't be stupid with it, and be careful what surfaces you use it on if it's a decent concentration though. Porcelain in toilets and tubs don't mind it at all.

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.

my hot water tank is full of rocks that condensed from the water going through it. causes a popping noise when it heats up the water.

Do something about water softeners. Please. We have hard water at our house and use water softeners to combat the problem.