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desiccator en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. A closed glass vessel containing a desiccant (such as silica gel) used in laboratories for drying materials or for keeping them dry.
    • Shirley walks past laboratories filled with petri dishes and desiccators, microscopes and pipettes 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 219:
  2. A machine for drying fruit, milk, etc., usually by the aid of heat; an evaporator.

Forms

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Deriveds

vacuum desiccator · cryodesiccator