Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which desiccates or dries. Specifically
- n. Same as exsiccator.
Wiktionary
- n. A closed glass vessel containing a desiccant (such as silica gel) used in laboratories for drying materials or for keeping them dry
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who, or that which, desiccates.
- n. 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.
- n. A machine or apparatus for drying fruit, milk, etc., usually by the aid of heat; an evaporator.
Examples
“On my first day, Professor Hirata brought out a large vacuum desiccator and said, "This contains dried Cypridina.”
“Two big air conditioners and a desiccator run constantly to keep it at 50 degrees F, and 30% Rh.”
“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.”
“The bottle is capped with its tight-fitting stopper when it is outside the desiccator so that moisture won't get inside.”
“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.”
“It was then warmed on a water-oven, kept in a vacuum desiccator over solid paraffin, and the weight estimated.”
“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.”
“When very accurate dry matter determinations are desired, the substance is dried in a vacuum oven, or in a desiccator over sulphuric acid, or in an atmosphere of some non-oxidizing gas, as hydrogen.”
“After cooling in a desiccator, it is weighed again.”
“_ -- The platinum bowl is washed with nitric acid and distilled water, dried by heat, and then left to cool in a desiccator.”
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