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1. In this type of cell fusion polyethylene glycol, PEG, acts as a dehydrating agent and fuses not only plasma membranes but also intracellular membranes.
2. These naturally occurring equilibrium changes also allow chlorides to also be used as a dehydrating agent including the drying out of and curing and preservation of hides.
3. Sulfuric acid is a much more common a very strong dehydrating agent and dessicant for all sorts of materials . talk ) 18 : 00, 15 January 2011 ( UTC)
4. When combined with nitric acid, sulfuric acid acts both as an acid and a dehydrating agent, forming the nitronium ion, which is important in nitration reactions involving electrophilic aromatic substitution.
5. The Paal Knorr Furan synthesis is normally carried out under aqueous acidic conditions with protic acids such as aqueous sulfuric or hydrochloric acid, or anhydrous conditions with a Lewis acid or dehydrating agent.
6. "' Diethylene glycol dinitrate "'is a nitrated alcohol ester produced by the action of concentrated nitric acid, normally admixed with an excess of strong sulfuric acid as a dehydrating agent, upon diethylene glycol.
7. 5-Oxo-ETE can also be made form either 5 ( " S " )-HpETE ( and possibly 5 ( " R " )-HpEPE ) by the action of cytochrome P450 ( CYP ) enzymes such as CYP1A1, CYP1A2, CYP1B1, and CYP2S1 . from 5 ( " S " )-HETE ( and probably 5 ( " R " )-HETE ) by the non-enzymatic attack with heme or various other dehydrating agents; The contribution of the latter three pathways to the physiological production of 5-oxo-ETE has not been fully evaluated.