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Stainless steel U-shaped tube is a kind of equipment commonly used in laboratory. Because of its unique structure and material, it is widely used in the experiment of drying gas and collecting low boiling point liquid. The design of this U-shaped tube allows gas or liquid to effectively contact and react in the tube to complete a specific chemical or physical process.

In the case of gas drying, the experimenter usually fills the U-shaped tube with desiccant. The role of the desiccant is to adsorb or absorb the water in the gas passing through the pipe, so as to obtain dry gas. This method is essential for chemical reactions that require a dry environment or for the protection of certain precision instruments, where water vapor can interfere with experimental results or cause damage to equipment.

In addition, when it is necessary to check whether the passing gas contains water vapor, a white anhydrous copper sulfate (CuSO4) powder can be filled in a U-shaped tube. Anhydrous copper sulfate has the characteristics of water absorption, when the gas is loaded with anhydrous copper sulfate U-shaped tube, if the gas contains water vapor, anhydrous copper sulfate will quickly absorb water, and turn into blue copper sulfate pentahydrate (CuSO4·5H2O). This color change provides experimenters with an intuitive, rapid, and sensitive way to detect the presence of water vapor in a gas.

Because anhydrous copper sulfate is very sensitive to the reaction of water, it can be clearly indicated by color changes even in the case of extremely low water vapor content in the gas. This characteristic makes the U-tube a simple and effective tool for monitoring and proving the presence of water vapor in a gas, ensuring the accuracy and reliability of the experiment.

Stainless steel U-shaped tube not only has a wide range of applications in drying gases and collecting low boiling point liquids, but also can be used in combination with anhydrous copper sulfate as an effective means of detecting water vapor content in gases, which provides great convenience for laboratory work.

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