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Is this the same as Deliquescent? If not, what's the difference?

  • i am by no means an expert but i would think that the main difference is the phrase "forms a liquid solution" found in the article for "Deliquescent"
    • According to my offline pedia, a deliq.. dissolves in water from the air while a hygro.. just tends to absorb it.

cotton fibre

is cotton Hygroscopic because each fibre aborbs water or because the cotton fibres trap air, and in this trapped air water exists as water vapor ? Teeteetee 10:58, 6 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merge from Deliquescence

Even if they're technically different, they are so similar that they would be better presented as one article. —Keenan Pepper 03:25, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merge with Dessication

I agree with the notion of merging this with Deliquescence, but why not merge both with Dessication. Given the relative (small) size of this article, or even the combined articles, and the close relationship of hygroscopic substances - even those so hygroscopic as to be deliquescent - wouldn't the reader be better served by being redirected to that article, and add the appropriate stubs there?

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