Lime readily absorbs moisture from the air, and is used to dry moist gases, especially ammonia, which cannot be dried by the usual desiccating agents.
An oceanic climate increases the humidity of the islands as compared with the mainland lying in the same desiccating tradewind belt.
At least four criminally wasted years, to say nothing of the benumbing and desiccating effect of that old system of education!
If there is any truth in the theory of a desiccating action in evergreen trees, plantations of this sort might have a value as drainers of lands not easily laid dry by other processes.
The effect, however, is in some degree counterbalanced by the fact that the soil and the plants on the easterly slope are swept by the withering and desiccating winds which sweep over the arid plains of the interior.
This purifying material also acts as a desiccating agent.
This material is stated to act as a desiccating as well as a purifying agent.
The gas-conducting tube leading from the desiccating apparatus is introduced into a mercury bath, if dry gaseous ammonia be required, because water cannot be employed in collecting ammonia gas.
This addition causes their biting and desiccating effect on the pituitary membrane.
Potatoes may be preserved so as to stand the longest voyages unchanged, by thoroughly desiccating them in an oven, or by steam heat.
In ten minutes the desiccating process is finished, and the cartridge-bag is removed, a far more perfect instrument for its deadly purpose than that which is made up stairs by hand.
This, from thedesiccating nature of the climate, is especially the case in Canada and the United States, and, coupled with the extensive use of wood in building, has a large influence in many parts of the continent.
This was a very different climate from that of the Peruvian coast, where the desiccating air speedily makes a mummy of any dead body upon its arid sands.
The warm sand, the desiccating air, and the sun had dried his clothes, and his nap had refreshed him.
Tortured by love, the girl presents an aspect as pitiable as it is lovable; she resembles the vine Mâdhavi when it is blighted by the hot breath of a leaf-desiccating wind.
An arid soil and a desiccating climate make them thin as a race, but they do not admire thinness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "desiccating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
