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Why does distilled water not conduct electricity, whereas rain water does?

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Distilled water is pure and it does not form ions .Whereas rain water contains impurities in it like acid which contains ions and release them when dissolved in water .Hence , electricity is conducted by rain water not by distilled water .
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