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Old 11-21-2007, 02:01 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Right, if you stick a tds meter into saltwater, you will get a reading (salt is a dissolved solid if I'm not mistaken). Also, I'm not surprised that you got a reading from your bottled water as the bottlers replace trace minerals and whatnot after running the water through an RO unit.


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