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  2. Hygroscopy - Wikipedia

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    If a compound dissolves in water, then it is considered to be hydrophilic. [6] Zinc chloride and calcium chloride, as well as potassium hydroxide and sodium hydroxide (and many different salts), are so hygroscopic that they readily dissolve in the water they absorb: this property is called deliquescence.

  3. Cleanroom - Wikipedia

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    A cleanroom is designed to keep everything from dust to airborne organisms or vaporised particles away from it, and so from whatever material is being handled inside it. A cleanroom can also prevent the escape of materials. This is often the primary aim in hazardous biology, nuclear work, pharmaceutics and virology.

  4. Dealing with water weight? Why it's happening and 7 ways to ...

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    It can take anywhere from one day to a week or so to completely lose excess water weight and return to normal. Healthy adults can expect to lose one to five pounds, Schnoll-Sussman notes ...

  5. Moulting - Wikipedia

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    A dragonfly in its radical final moult, metamorphosing from an aquatic nymph to a winged adult.. In biology, moulting (British English), or molting (American English), also known as sloughing, shedding, or in many invertebrates, ecdysis, is a process by which an animal casts off parts of its body to serve some beneficial purpose, either at specific times of the year, or at specific points in ...

  6. Kármán vortex street - Wikipedia

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    Visualisation of the vortex street behind a circular cylinder in air; the flow is made visible through release of glycerol vapour in the air near the cylinder. In fluid dynamics, a Kármán vortex street (or a von Kármán vortex street) is a repeating pattern of swirling vortices, caused by a process known as vortex shedding, which is responsible for the unsteady separation of flow of a fluid ...

  7. Condenser (laboratory) - Wikipedia

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    The water-cooled condenser, which was popularized by Justus von Liebig, was invented by Weigel, Poisonnier, and Gadolin, and perfected by Göttling, all in the late 18th century. [2] Several designs that are still in common use were developed and became popular in the 19th century, when chemistry became a widely practiced scientific discipline.

  8. Chocolate Labrador's Drool Freezes Into Icicles and It Has ...

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    It's actually a Chocolate Lab in Oklahoma, who loved the chill so much that he wasn't ready to come inside from the snow. — not even when his drool froze in tiny icicles. Which had people online ...

  9. Wet chemistry - Wikipedia

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    Wet chemistry is a form of analytical chemistry that uses classical methods such as observation to analyze materials. The term wet chemistry is used as most analytical work is done in the liquid phase. [1]