Science Buddies: "Ask an Expert"

I am a student of 11nth grade.I will do a project on several cheap processes of water purification which will be effective in sea-costal areas.But I want to do an additinal project. And that is intoxicating arsenic contaminated water.If I vaporize arsenic contaminated water , would that vapour contain arsenic? If it contains then what's the reason?

Hello Fabliha,

congratulations on joining Science Buddies! Water purification is a very important topic.
The way water vaporization works is that you purify water from the other components that have a boiling point lower than the one of water. It is the case for arsenic, so the vaporized water would not contain arsenic.
Here is a webpage about this method for water purification:
http://www.allaboutwater.org/distillation.html

Let me know if this helps and if you would need any more information!
Good luck for your projects

Heloise