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It’s filled with desiccant beads using the same moisture-absorbing principles as those ubiquitous silica packages that are tucked into electronic boxes and food to keep the contents dry.
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Lisa Wood Shapiro, Wired News, 5 Oct. 2025
The soap acts as a desiccant to dry out the moss.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2025
Some desiccants are solid, others are liquid but the newest — hydrogels or aerogels — are spongy.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
In storage, the concentrated desiccant and pure water are held in tanks, effectively banking cooling potential for later.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
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Lisa Wood Shapiro, Wired News, 5 Oct. 2025
The soap acts as a desiccant to dry out the moss.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2025
Some desiccants are solid, others are liquid but the newest — hydrogels or aerogels — are spongy.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
In storage, the concentrated desiccant and pure water are held in tanks, effectively banking cooling potential for later.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Desiccant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/desiccant. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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desiccant
1 of 2 adjective
des·ic·cant
ˈdes-i-kənt 
: tending to dry or desiccate
desiccant
2 of 2 noun
: a drying agent (as calcium chloride)
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