Quote Originally Posted by Hoosier View Post
You should be able to use a microwave to boil it pure as well. I believe this is the same as when you boil water and pour it between two cups repeatedly. You'll remove all the contamination allowing you to bring the water right up to 212 deg F. If you do this, and then drop a (not steril) spoon into the water, the water will "explode"... all the contamination on the spoon will transition from solid to gas immediately.
distilled, pure, H2O will react like this at 212 degrees F. It doesn't exactly explode, but reacts quite violently. Other pure substances do this also, but not many. H2O is just flat out weird stuff chemically, and is most dense when in it's liquid state. I can't remember why pure water reacts violently when heated, but I think it had something to due with the density and being molecularly polar.

Regardless, don't try this. You get boiling hot water everywhere. Someone could lose an eye or skin or something. Then where would you be; all physically deformed and the neighbor kids will make fun of you and call your Freddie... No good can come of this.