You fill up your bedside water before sleep, and find it cool and refreshing—but when you wake up and take a swig, that water now tastes well, stale. What’s going on here? What causes this unfortunate phenomenon? Watch this SciShow Quick Question episode, hosted by Michael Aranda, to find out!
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Sources:
http://www.chemistry.wustl.edu/~edudev/LabTutorials/Water/PublicWaterSupply/PublicWaterSupply.html
http://www.wired.com/2015/08/big-question-tap-water-go-stale-overnight/
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/whats-stale-glass-water-180955926/#3qFa1RQ4heTzzcXQ.99
http://www.epa.gov/your-drinking-water/table-regulated-drinking-water-contaminants#one
http://time.com/3104999/old-water-sick/
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Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters — we couldn’t make SciShow without them! Shout out to Justin Ove, Coda Buchanan, Lucy McGlasson, Accalia Elementia, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Saul, Kathy & Tim Philip, Kevin Bealer, Christopher Collins, Thomas J., charles george, Andreas Heydeck, Patrick D. Ashmore, Justin Lentz, Will and Sonja Marple, Ed Shelley, Chris Peters, Tim Curwick, Philippe von Bergen, Fatima Iqbal.
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Sources:
http://www.chemistry.wustl.edu/~edudev/LabTutorials/Water/PublicWaterSupply/PublicWaterSupply.html
http://www.wired.com/2015/08/big-question-tap-water-go-stale-overnight/
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/whats-stale-glass-water-180955926/#3qFa1RQ4heTzzcXQ.99
http://www.epa.gov/your-drinking-water/table-regulated-drinking-water-contaminants#one
http://time.com/3104999/old-water-sick/