<P> Distilled water is water that has been boiled into steam and condensed back into liquid in a separate container . Impurities in the original water that do not boil below or at the boiling point of water remain in the original container . Thus, distilled water is one type of purified water . </P> <P> Drinking water has been distilled from sea water since at least about AD 200, when the process was clearly described by Alexander of Aphrodisias . Its history predates this, as a passage in Aristotle's Meteorologica (II. 3, 358b16) refers to the distillation of water . Captain Israel Williams of the Friendship (1797) improvised a way to distill water, which he described in his journal . </P>

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