Plants are unable to utilize any of those gases dissolved in water.
Deionized (DI) Water
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Nonsense. Have you ever heard of foliar feeding and the roots suck it up!
What salt does your water softener put into the water?
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Foliar is the leaves. Yes plants need oxygen and carbon dioxide but very few can utilize nitrogen. In fact none can, but some have nitrogen-fixing bacteria that can.
Nitrogen compounds in the soil is an entirely different need.
We are way off topic from using DI water for car washing.
That filter removes hardness minerals from the water?
I have a small DI tank. Got it a couple years ago from an RV supply place. It works well.
However, if I were to do it again, I’d probably try a product like Superior Formula 4 Spray Wax. It contains PDMS which is the drying aid for the “spot free rinse” they use in automatic car washes. I think it’s the same stuff they put in dishwasher drying aids as well.
Full disclosure, I’ve never tried one of these products. But at $30 for 1 gallon, I would give it a shot before spending considerably more $ on a DI water system. If it doesn’t work, it was only $30. Plenty of YT videos out there on how to use the product, and there may be other offerings these days.
https://www.oreillyauto.com/detail/...uperior-products-1-gallon-spray-wax/scp0/c841
The salt left behind in the resin tank. You will kill plants using salt based softened water.
You don't know much about plants. Abandon ship!!!!!!
Actually you are incorrect.
"Plants uptake and assimilate nitrogen from the soil in the form of nitrate, ammonium ions, and available amino acids from organic sources."
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=can+plants+use+free+nitrogen?&ia=web
Nonsense. Look up foliar feeding! Miracle Grow would be out of business if that were true. You want to see a plant take off spray it with some calcium chloride.
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/l...liver-burst-micronutrients-plants/5584102001/
Did you even read your link. Dude, slow down. You are wrong. Plants cannot absorb N2.
"However, many forms of nitrogen are not actually absorbable by plants. Nitrogen gas (N2) in the atmosphere combines to form nitrogen monoxide (NO) under very high temperatures such as lightning, which reacts with oxygen (O2) to yield nitrogen dioxide (NO2) gas. Then nitrogen dioxide interacts with water vapor to form nitrate (HNO3).
This is the form of nitrogen which the plants can easily absorb. When the rain, which contains nitrate, comes down to the earth, plants absorb the water and nitrogen through their roots."
Nobody has heard of foliar feeding? Or noticed how much better plants do from rainwater? Or that some plants get all their nutrients from the air and rain as they have no roots??
Of course all those are great. I don't think anyone is disputing that.
But the fact remains plants simply cannot use N2 directly.
Not all, but some, of the contamination that leads to spotting, yes.
Really, the key to not having spots is to dry the vehicle before the sun does, would you agree with that?
I never said they can, never said N2 is in falling rain water. But at least we are agreeing that rainwater can dissolve minerals as it falls though the air?
My argument starts with the creation of water from the elements of H and O and it is extremely reactive then. Not 20 seconds later or a half hour it may take for the rain to fall and actually hit the ground.
Here's a filter that fits the standard filter housing and removes hardness from the water. Good for a dedicated hose bib.
https://www.amazon.com/MaxWaterFlow-com-Magnesium-Hardness-Reduction-Softening/dp/B0789VTMWN
https://www.amazon.com/MaxWaterFlow-com-Magnesium-Hardness-Reduction-Softening/dp/B0789VTMWN
Where is water being created in the atmosphere?
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