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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Citation
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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