Talk:List of desiccants

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This list includes a number of substances which, while capable or removing water, are not usually used for that purpose, mainly because they are - too dangerous (hydrides) - too expensive (hydrides, alkali metals & alloys) The definition of

Chemists call many of those you removed "desiccants" too. Phosphorus pentoxide is often used in desiccators and in gas drying columns. Solvents are distilled from calcium hydride, sodium, potassium, sodium-potassium alloy, sodium-benzophenone. Magnesium is used to dry methanol. Sulfuric acid is used in a Drechsler bottle for drying gases at low pressure. --Rifleman 82 (talk) 19:51, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The the education center link is obsolete. It looks like the chemical company it belonged to may have been bought out by a different company. --Cosmicaug (talk) 21:00, 5 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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can someone put the list into a table, maybe with other columns with notes and different ways of measuring efficiency? Bumpf (talk) 14:44, 6 July 2021 (UTC)[insert witty text on wikipedia signatures][reply]