{"id":321,"date":"2016-10-02T02:24:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T02:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labnetwest.colourfi.com\/?p=321"},"modified":"2025-12-22T06:03:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:03:51","slug":"desiccators-glass-verses-polycarbonate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/desiccators-glass-verses-polycarbonate\/","title":{"rendered":"Desiccators, glass verses polycarbonate:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For long periods of time, or when a vacuum is needed, use glass only.<br \/>\nIf it is only for overnight or not under vacuum, polycarbonate is suitable. They don\u2019t have a good seal on them like glass desiccators so the silica gel needs checking regularly. They are unbreakable, can be easily washed and are very light-weight. To protect from hot objects like crucibles, cover the rack inside with aluminum foil and puncture it where the holes are. Never put acetone near them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For long periods of time, or when a vacuum is needed, use glass only. If it is only for overnight or not under vacuum, polycarbonate is suitable. They don\u2019t have a good seal on them like glass desiccators so the silica gel needs checking regularly. They are unbreakable, can be easily washed and are very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}