🧵 Drying a material
Anonymous at Sun, 2 Jun 2024 16:19:15 UTC No. 16206346
Ok so, stupid question but I want to be sure here.
If you have something in a sealed container with a molecular sieve and a humidity sensor, and the sensor is slowly dropping the material IS getting dryer right?
If something is in a sealed container with a desiccant and the humidity in the air is lower than the moisture content of the material, it will lose moisture, right?
Anonymous at Sun, 2 Jun 2024 16:22:24 UTC No. 16206354
Yes. 2nd law of thermodaynamics would be violated otherwise.
Anonymous at Sun, 2 Jun 2024 18:59:24 UTC No. 16206523
>>16206354
So theoretically, if the desiccant is strong enough and I give it enough time, there should be 0% moisture in the substance, right? Or very close to it?
Can I use the humidity in the chamber as a guide to the moisture content of the substance? The humidity would not continue to drop if the stuff was still giving off more moisture right? So am I wrong in thinking that the humidity percentage in the air is the ceiling of the moisture percentage in the stuff?
Anonymous at Sun, 2 Jun 2024 20:58:57 UTC No. 16206713
Just use your oven ffs
Anonymous at Sun, 2 Jun 2024 21:04:07 UTC No. 16206727
>>16206523
humidity from your stash has to travel through the air before it reaches the dessicant, so assuming uniform diffusion throughout the box yes
Anonymous at Mon, 3 Jun 2024 00:56:36 UTC No. 16207055
>>16206713
I'm trying to dry mushrooms not take care of an epidemic.
Anonymous at Mon, 3 Jun 2024 02:35:15 UTC No. 16207145
>>16207055
No, dipshit, use your oven to regenerate your molecular sieves.
Anonymous at Mon, 3 Jun 2024 04:11:37 UTC No. 16207239
>>16207145
Oh, yah of course, I'm using fresh sieve.
I bake it then cool it under vacuum when I'm recharging