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Default Hot-cold water color

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"Ralph Mowery" wrote:

The water heater is causing the cloudy water. That is normal. Hot water
will often look that way.
Forgot the reason, but has something to do with the way the hot water and
the ammount of air in the water. If yuo turn off the power to the water
heater, then it will look like the cold water when it has had time to cool


Hot water tends to dispel gases. Cold water will often contain dissolved
air. The normal bubbles of air that would be eliminated if the hot water
was in an open container does not happen inside a tank. The air remains
dissolved until the pressure gets relieved when the water goes out a
faucet. Sort of like soda water.

Bill

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