Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tube filled with some material having a great avidity for moisture, such as calcium chlorid, sulphuric acid, or phosphoric anhydrid, and used to dry a current of gas which is passed through it, or to retain the moisture evolved from a substance so that it can be weighed.
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Examples
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U-tubes and a sulphuric-acid drying-tube, we now use large cylinders and we have found that the oxygen from liquid air is practically free from carbon dioxide and water-vapor, the quantities present being wholly negligible in experiments such as these.
Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man Francis Gano Benedict 1913
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Through one hole in it was fitted a long funnel; through another ran a glass tube, connecting with a large U-shaped drying-tube filled with calcium chloride, which in turn connected with a long open tube with an up-turned end.
The Dream Doctor 1908
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The last of these is joined to another drying-tube.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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To this last is joined a drying-tube containing chloride of calcium and anhydrous copper sulphate.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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"That forms hydrogen gas," he explained, "which passes through the drying-tube and the ignition-tube.
The Dream Doctor 1908
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