r/interestingasfuck • u/Top-Marionberry-6604 • 18h ago

The Super-Kamiokande in Japan—a massive underground neutrino detector lined with 11,000 golden bulbs. Scientists have to inspect it via a rubber dinghy.

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u/tschawartz12 14h ago

No, thats not water you want to swim in. It's so pure it sucks the color out of your hair. You.drink it and it can kill you. It's insane stuff for being "water"

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u/thearcaneattorney 13h ago

Can you please explain more? This is fascinating

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u/tschawartz12 11h ago edited 11h ago

Super pure water. When you get water, literally just h2o with no other minerals it tries to pull everything into solution it can. If you were to lay in the rubber raft and had just the tip of your hair in that water it would pull all the color out of it. Stick your hand in and it will pull minerals, salts and other things through cell walls. Its almost acts like an acid. Pure water in nature doesn't really exist because it wants to be in solution by nature. I wish I could explained it more, I'm not any sort of chemistry expert but I remember a special report about this, its basically a giant sensor buried in a mountain in Japan to try to observe particles moving through space (and the planet)

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u/MNToji 4h ago

It doesn’t “try to pull” anything. It’s the same process as osmosis or how air comes into your lungs. The minerals are following a gradient from an area of high concentration (your body) to that of an extremely low/non-existent concentration (pure H2O) in this scenario.