what is guard tube or drying tube ?
pls define properly
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A drying tube or guard tube is a tube-like piece of apparatus used to house a disposable solid desiccant, wherein at one end the tube-like structure terminates in a ground glass joint for use in connecting the drying tube to a reaction vessel, for the purpose of keeping the vessel free of moisture.
A drying tube or guard tube is a tube-like piece of apparatus used to house a disposable solid desiccant, wherein at one end the tube-like structure terminates in a ground glass joint for use in connecting the drying tube to a reaction vessel, for the purpose of keeping the vessel free of moisture.
(This one is from Google now explaination)
So yea from above we conclude that this is a container which can be also called an apparatus as in chemistry we call containers apparatus (hehe so complicated). These containers help to avoid the moisture of outside coming inside as some things get rotten due to moisture. For example, iron rusts from moisture so small pieces of iron can be stored in this. We can also conclude that it prevents moisture from coming inside so it is called guard tube (it simply guards particular particles from moisture)