desiccator in English

noun
1
a glass container or other apparatus holding a drying agent for removing moisture from specimens and protecting them from water vapor in the air.
The supernatant was discarded and the pellets were dried in a desiccator over silica gel for 24 h and then extracted for the various assays.

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1. Leave it to cool in a desiccator and weigh.

2. Weigh it after it has been cooled in a desiccator.

3. Desiccator, containing freshly activated silica gel or an equivalent desiccant with a water content indicator

4. Between 133 °C and 135 °C, after vacuum drying for four hours in a sulphuric acid desiccator

5. Allow the crucible to cool in a desiccator to ambient temperature and weigh rapidly.

6. After cooling, complete the weighing of the weighing bottle within two minutes of its removal from the desiccator.