Talk:List of desiccants

This list includes a number of substances which, while capable or removing water, are not usually used for that purpose, mainly because they are - too dangerous (hydrides) - too expensive (hydrides, alkali metals & alloys) The definition of desiccants referred to lists usual desiccants only. I remove the clearly out-of-place material. PS : all three external links are useless or broken. --Environnement2100 (talk) 19:20, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Chemists call many of those you removed "desiccants" too. Phosphorus pentoxide is often used in desiccators and in gas drying columns. Solvents are distilled from calcium hydride, sodium, potassium, sodium-potassium alloy, sodium-benzophenone. Magnesium is used to dry methanol. Sulfuric acid is used in a Drechsler bottle for drying gases at low pressure. --Rifleman 82 (talk) 19:51, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

The the education center link is obsolete. It looks like the chemical company it belonged to may have been bought out by a different company. --Cosmicaug (talk) 21:00, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

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does not look much like a wikipedia list article

can someone put the list into a table, maybe with other columns with notes and different ways of measuring efficiency? Bumpf (talk) 14:44, 6 July 2021 (UTC)[insert witty text on wikipedia signatures]