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Definition of Desiccator
1. n. One who, or that which, desiccates.
2. n. One that desiccates
Definition of Desiccator
1. Noun. A closed glass vessel containing a desiccant (such as silica gel) used in laboratories for drying materials or for keeping them dry ¹
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Definition of Desiccator
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Medical Definition of Desiccator
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1. One who, or that which, desiccates.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Desiccator
Literary usage of Desiccator
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Methods in Metallurgical Analysis by Charles Henry White (1920)
"The desiccator may contain any good absorbent of moisture. ... If sulphuric acid
is the dryer used FIQ 34 —Desic- *n tke desiccator, glass beads should be ..."
2. Manual of Chemistry: A Guide to Lectures and Laboratory Work for Beginners by William Simon (1895)
"29 shows a convenient form of desiccator. The empty crucibles should be weighed
under the same conditions —ie, after having been heated and cooled in a ..."
3. Quantitative Chemical Analysis: Adapted for Use in the Laboratories of by Frank Clowes, Joseph Bernard Coleman (1900)
"The desiccator.—Since many substances are hygroscopic and absorb moisture from
the air after they have been dried, some means must be employed to prevent ..."
4. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial ScienceChemistry (1903)
"On the bottom of the desiccator (b, Fig. i), a thick • layer ol phosphoric oxide
is placed, and in it stands a tripod made of thick copper wire. ..."
5. Science Abstracts by Institution of Electrical Engineers (1900)
"The normal element shown in the figure is made by inserting a ring-shaped vessel
into an ordinary desiccator glass, and has the advantages that (1) the ..."
6. Official Methods of Analysis by William Horwitz (1920)
"Between the pump and the desiccator interpose an empty bottle, ... Draw the air
from the desiccator through the water and turn the desiccator stop-cock at ..."
7. Golden Tips: A Description of Ceylon and Its Great Tea Industry by Henry William Cave (1900)
"Fermentation being complete, the tea is now transferred to the apparatus known
as the desiccator, where it undergoes the process known as firing. ..."
8. Handbook of Pharmacy, Embracing the Theory and Practice of Pharmacy and the by Virgil Coblentz (1894)
"Hampers desiccator. for connecting with a suction-pump if necessary to dry "in FIG.
179. Vacuum desiccator. vacuo." Fig. 179 illustrates another form, ..."
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