How to Use desiccant in a Sentence

desiccant

noun

• The more humid the air, the more the desiccant can take moisture out, which is the bases of the cooling.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Feb. 2024
• Warm air is then used to dry the desiccant so it can be reused, and the water is collected in a tank.
  — Jessica MacDonald, Travel + Leisure, 13 Oct. 2023
• The liquid salt desiccant then runs through a heat pump system to be recharged.
  — Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 29 Aug. 2023
• In the absorber units the desiccant is sprinkled through a mesh to increase the surface area as air is drawn over it by a fan.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2023
• Salt acts as a desiccant, pulling water from meat fibers.
  — Jeffrey Gardner, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2022
• But savvy DIYers have long known that the omnipresent desiccants are good for a lot more than keeping jerky dry.
  — Seth Porges, Popular Mechanics, 29 Apr. 2010
• Borax is a desiccant and will draw all the moisture out and preserve the feet eventually.
  — Joseph Albanese, Outdoor Life, 26 May 2020
• Some gardeners add a desiccant with the seed packets to reduce the moisture levels.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 Jan. 2018
• Submerge your phone in a desiccant—a substance that will induce dryness by absorbing water.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 1 Apr. 2022
• Submerge your phone in a desiccant—a substance that will induce dryness by absorbing water.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 3 Feb. 2020
• Step #3: Use a Desiccant Now, here's the most important part: submerge your phone in a desiccant, or a substance that will induce dryness by absorbing water.
  — Joel Johnson, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2021
• Dry goods and some other foods can be safely stored for a long time in a variety of containers, when packaged with the appropriate desiccant or oxygen absorbers.
  — Popular Science, 9 Nov. 2020
• Killgrove said chestnut oaks contain tannin, a natural desiccant, a type of drying agent.
  — Chiara Vercellone, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2016
• Gazelle, a company known for buying used and broken devices and then reselling them, conducted a series of experiments to see which desiccants worked best with which phones.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 3 Feb. 2020
• Another method of drying flowers involves silica gel, a desiccant that rapidly removes the moisture from the flower.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 4 Nov. 2017
• This minimizes humidity getting into the medicine bottle and also removes the risk of swallowing the desiccant by mistake.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2022
• Previously the company believed that a drying agent called a desiccant stopped the chemical from degrading.
  — Tom Krisher, The Seattle Times, 21 July 2017
• The problem is a lack of a desiccant or chemical drying agent that would otherwise prevent the ammonium nitrate propellant from taking on moisture due to long-term exposure to heat and humidity.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 4 May 2023
• The third type of dehumidifier is the desiccant dehumidifier, which draws air in through a rotor filled with absorbent material to remove moisture.
  — Jessica MacDonald, Travel + Leisure, 13 Oct. 2023
• The recall disclosed Tuesday covers inflators using calcium sulfate as a desiccant.
  — Ryan Beene, Bloomberg.com, 11 July 2017
• Unlike all the other 100 million inflators recalled globally to date, these inflators contain a moisture-absorbing desiccant.
  — Clifford Atiyeh and Rusty Blackwell, Car and Driver, 31 Aug. 2017
• The previous recalls focused on inflators without desiccants.
  — Ryan Beene, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2017

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024