Questions tagged [drying]
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How might humidity inhibit the drying or hardening chemical oxidation process of linseed-based oil paint?
I understand that linseed-based oil paint essentially dries or hardens by the chemical process of oxidation and not by evaporation. If it is possible that humidity somehow inhibits the chemical drying ...
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Use of boron(III) oxide for drying acetone
Acetone undergoes aldol self-condensation in the presence of acids or bases:
which makes drying agents such as 3A/4A molecular sieves, barium oxide, potassium hydroxide and carbonate (basic), copper(...
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What is the standard method for activating molecular sieves with microwave radiation?
Typically, molecular sieves are dried under vacuum at elevated temperatures (about 200 to 300 °C depending on pore size) for several hours.
Alternatively, microwave heating has been used for ...
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How to dry sludges?
I sometimes need to dry sludges or thick, sticky slurries. The way this is typically done in highly equipped labs is to use a spray dryer which liquifies the slurry, heats it up, then sprays it at ...
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drying polymers / FDM 3D printer filaments
My understanding is PLA can absorb 1%, and some others (ABS?) can absorb up to 10% moisture. In order to dry a polymer, is additional (more than room temperature) heat needed (like a filament dryer/...
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Drying Li2CO3 without vaccum
I am looking for drying Li2CO3 without a vacuum oven, simply because we do not have one.
I did not find anything in the literature, or I am overthinking it? Just 100 °C overnight in a normal oven, and ...
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I want to purposefully dry up (polymerize) an entire bottle of ethyl cyanoacrylate (Super Glue). How to do it?
So, I want to do some tests with the solid form of ethyl cyanoacrylate.
I have a small 20g bottle which was very cheap so I don't mind.
How can I cause the entire contents of the bottle to set and ...