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Why does water taste stale after sitting out overnight?
Some suspicions I have...
1) Dust settling, and that "stale" taste is dust.
2) Microorganism/bacteria enter and multiply (especially because I drank out of it yesterday, which I suppose would be an easy hypothesis to test... fill the cup but don't drink from it, then wait a day and drink it).
3) It's from a plastic cup, so perhaps a small amount of plastic has leached into the water.
I read an answer on answers.com or somewhere and someone said it is because the aeration of the water which has gone away after sitting.
Some suspicions I have...
1) Dust settling, and that "stale" taste is dust.
2) Microorganism/bacteria enter and multiply (especially because I drank out of it yesterday, which I suppose would be an easy hypothesis to test... fill the cup but don't drink from it, then wait a day and drink it).
3) It's from a plastic cup, so perhaps a small amount of plastic has leached into the water.
I read an answer on answers.com or somewhere and someone said it is because the aeration of the water which has gone away after sitting.