Thread: Drying out/dehydrating silica gel bags
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Old 21-09-2011, 05:58 PM
George Ionas
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In the lab we heat the silica gel in a laboratory oven to 180 degrees C for 3 hours. DO NOT do this in the home oven or microwave as CoCl2 (the blue dye) is a carcinogen.

George
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