How Silica Gel Took over the World 10 months ago (scopeofwork.net) 6 comments NaOH Reply Add to library NaOH 10 months ago This appears to have reached the second-chance pool even though another submission of the same article generated ample discussion a couple days ago.How Silica Gel Took Over the World - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43550556 - April 2025 (171 comment) robertlagrant 10 months ago > Thanks to Brad Avenson for suggesting (facetiously) that we fill our products & packaging with “dry, inert gas,”This is what we do with crisp packets. Noble gases don't let the crisps go rancid. pfdietz 10 months ago Surely nitrogen is cheaper than noble gases? robertlagrant 10 months ago Oh yes also nitrogen. freemoney 10 months ago this is a piece of knowledge I didn't know I needed
NaOH 10 months ago This appears to have reached the second-chance pool even though another submission of the same article generated ample discussion a couple days ago.How Silica Gel Took Over the World - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43550556 - April 2025 (171 comment)
robertlagrant 10 months ago > Thanks to Brad Avenson for suggesting (facetiously) that we fill our products & packaging with “dry, inert gas,”This is what we do with crisp packets. Noble gases don't let the crisps go rancid. pfdietz 10 months ago Surely nitrogen is cheaper than noble gases? robertlagrant 10 months ago Oh yes also nitrogen.
pfdietz 10 months ago Surely nitrogen is cheaper than noble gases? robertlagrant 10 months ago Oh yes also nitrogen.
This appears to have reached the second-chance pool even though another submission of the same article generated ample discussion a couple days ago.
How Silica Gel Took Over the World - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43550556 - April 2025 (171 comment)
> Thanks to Brad Avenson for suggesting (facetiously) that we fill our products & packaging with “dry, inert gas,”
This is what we do with crisp packets. Noble gases don't let the crisps go rancid.
Surely nitrogen is cheaper than noble gases?
Oh yes also nitrogen.
this is a piece of knowledge I didn't know I needed