silica gel

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Seeds were dried for 2 weeks over silicagel before sugar extraction.
The silicagel was exchanged in all the bags at the first sign of a change of the indicator colour.
The air was dried to zero relative humidity by passing it through two columns of silicagel.
A sample of 120 seeds at each collection was dried (rapidly) to 10 + 2% moisture content over silicagel at room temperature.
In any case, seed moisture should previously be equilibrated with silicagel.
In other countries, the number of banks using silicagel is also growing.
After that, leaves were put into a plastic bag with silicagel until leaves were completely dried.
For dehydration, six or seven equal aliquots of seeds were placed in polythene bags with an equal weight of freshly regenerated silicagel desiccant.
For the first time, silicagel was included with the seeds in flame-sealed glass vials.
Aerogel is a very-low-density silicagel produced by precipitation from a solvent.
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