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desiccator - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun One who or that which desiccates or dries.
noun Same as exsiccator .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun One who, or that which, desiccates.
noun (Chem.) A short glass jar fitted with an air-tight cover, and containing some desiccating agent, as sulphuric acid, phosphorus pentoxide, or calcium chloride, above which is supported on a perforated platform the material to be dried, or preserved from moisture.
noun A machine or apparatus for drying fruit, milk, etc., usually by the aid of heat; an evaporator.
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun A closed glass vessel containing a desiccant (such as silica gel ) used in laboratories for drying materials or for keeping them dry
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On my first day, Professor Hirata brought out a large vacuum desiccator and said, "This contains dried Cypridina."
Osamu Shimomura - Autobiography 2009
Two big air conditioners and a desiccator run constantly to keep it at 50 degrees F, and 30% Rh.
Fieldtrip! Scribe 2008
Two big air conditioners and a desiccator run constantly to keep it at 50 degrees F, and 30% Rh.
Archive 2008-03-01 Scribe 2008
The bottle is capped with its tight-fitting stopper when it is outside the desiccator so that moisture won't get inside.
Archive 2007-08-01 AYDIN 2007
This is how I learned to do it way back when: First, you dry the empty bottle to a constant weight, then you add the substance to be weighed in it and place the bottle in a desiccator until its weight stops changing.
Archive 2007-08-01 AYDIN 2007
This is how I learned to do it way back when: First, you dry the empty bottle to a constant weight, then you add the substance to be weighed in it and place the bottle in a desiccator until its weight stops changing.
A chemistry set for tiny chemists AYDIN 2007
The bottle is capped with its tight-fitting stopper when it is outside the desiccator so that moisture won't get inside.
A chemistry set for tiny chemists AYDIN 2007
It was, however, found impossible to obtain any crystallisation from the neutralised (BaCO_ {3}) and concentrated solution, the syrup being kept for some weeks in a desiccator .
Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 C. F. Cross
It was then warmed on a water-oven, kept in a vacuum desiccator over solid paraffin, and the weight estimated.
Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 C. F. Cross
I have kept one very conveniently in a vacuum desiccator over phosphorus pentoxide, but if of any size, the condenser deserves a box to itself, and this must be air-tight and provided with a drying reagent, so arranged that it can be removed through a manhole of some sort.
On Laboratory Arts Richard Threlfall
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