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In the Laboratory
Cost-Effective Teacher
Low-Cost "Vacuum Desiccator"
Frederick Sweet
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110
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October 2004
Vol. 81 No. 10
p. 1500
Abstract
Described are individualized, low-cost, and safe desiccators that can be efficiently and rapidly made with an inexpensive kitchen aid sold for shrink-wrapping food. The device can be used for enclosing small vials or bottles and also jars that are too large to be placed in conventional glass or plastic desiccators. This shrink-wrapping device is proposed for producing "vacuum desiccators" in large undergraduate chemistry laboratories or in graduate and research laboratories.
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 Sweet, Frederick. J. Chem. Educ. 2004 81 1500.
*  Keywords
 ; General Chemistry; Introductory / High School Chemistry; Laboratory Equipment / Apparatus; Organic Chemistry; Safety / Hazardous Substances
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Last Updated:		 August 31, 2004
September 8, 2004
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