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- noun Plural form of
desiccator .
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Examples
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The desiccators within the suit were sucking at maximum and, of course, recovering the water and restoring ion-exchanged liquid, containing a careful proportion of salt, into the appropriate receptacle.
The Martian Way Asimov, Isaac, 1920- 1955
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The total solids must be determined by drying a weighed portion of the material, or a measured portion of its uniform turbid solution, at a temperature between 98. 5° C. and 100° C. in shallow, flat-bottomed basins, which shall afterwards be dried until constant weight at the same temperature, and cooled before weighing for not less than twenty minutes in air-tight desiccators over dry calcium chloride.
Synthetic Tannins Georg Grasser
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With the evaporated water deposited within the desiccators, I proceeded to an examination, drop by drop.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Various
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C. in shallow, flat-bottomed basins, which shall afterwards be dried until constant at the same temperature, and cooled before weighing for not less than twenty minutes in air-tight desiccators over dry calcium chloride.
Synthetic Tannins Georg Grasser
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The act, however, actually increases the chances of moistening the medication, Sun said, adding that the cotton can absorb water in the air, whilst the desiccators commonly lose their function as soon as the phial is open.
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Sun Shu-hui (孫淑慧), department chairperson, pointed out that many people keep the cotton and the desiccators in the phial after opening the bottles with the aim of keeping the bottles dry.
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The act, however, actually increases the chances of moistening the medication, Sun said, adding that the cotton can absorb water in the air, whilst the desiccators commonly lose their function as soon as the phial is open.
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Sun Shu-hui (孫淑慧), department chairperson, pointed out that many people keep the cotton and the desiccators in the phial after opening the bottles with the aim of keeping the bottles dry.
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Having lost nearly all hope of being able to attain the end which I had proposed, I took some of the slime from the marshes and from the masses of kelp and Confervæ from the sea shores, where intermittent fevers are endemic, and placed them in saucers under the ordinary glass desiccators exposed on a balcony, open for twenty-four hours, the most of the time under the action of the burning rays of the sun.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Various
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(Much less is known about the viability of the seed of cultivated amaranths, except that seeds stored at room temperature in desiccators may keep well for several years.
2 The Plants 1984
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