🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

脱水剤

Pronunciation / Transliteration: dassuizai

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Dehydrant/diːˈhaɪ.drənt/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"シリカゲルは強力な脱水剤として機能します。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A substance that promotes or causes dehydration; a dehydrating agent used to remove moisture from materials, gases, or chemical compounds.

    "Silica gel is commonly used as a dehydrant in product packaging to prevent moisture damage."
As adjective
  1. 1

    Serving to remove water or moisture from something.

    "The chemical mixture exhibited strong dehydrant properties when exposed to ambient humidity."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the English prefix de- (meaning away, off, or down) combined with the Greek hydr- (meaning water) and the agent/substance suffix -ant. Formed in the late 19th century as a technical and scientific term within chemistry and industrial manufacturing to describe substances that remove water.

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