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Drying and Dehydrating Agents

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What are drying or desiccating agents. Give examples.

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These are the substances which can readily absorb moisture from other substances without chemically reacting with them.

For example, Phosphorus pentoxide $P_{2} O_{5}$ , quicklime $C a O$ .

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