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Does pure water conduct electricity? If not, what can we do to make it conduct?

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Since pure water does not have positive and negative ions, so it does not conduct electricity. When a salt is added to it, salt gets ionised into positive and negative ions and so salt solution conducts electricity as shown in figure.

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