BBC Focus Magazine

[M Paul Lloyd]

If it has antioxidants it'll be a big seller.

Actually, the mere fact of it being extraterrestrial water probably means that the unscrupulous could say anything and sell it by the bucket-load.

Just so long as they can find a 'bucket' it won't dissolve that is, its the 'oxidant' ones that worry me.

Well ok thats possibly an exageration but to be honest it will most probably be very saline and I don't mean just a bit salty but more like brine and of course we are not all that tolerant of most sulphates and chlorides, even in quite small doses, even good old sodium chlorate makes most things a tad unpalletable if added to excess.

Not to mention acid salts.