Water Content in Products
Water content before and after drying in some common materials as cork, grain, soap, peat, wood and more
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The water content in some common materials before and after drying can be found in the table below:
| Material | Original water content before drying % |
Final water content after drying % |
| Coal, bituminous | 40 - 60 | 8 - 12 |
| Earth | 45 - 50 | - |
| Earth, sandy | 20 - 25 | - |
| Grain | 17 - 23 | 10 - 12 |
| Cork | 40 - 45 | 10 - 15 |
| Glue | 80 - 90 | - |
| Glue, air dried | 15 | - |
| Hides | 45 | - |
| Macaroni | 30 - 35 | 11 - 13 |
| Rubber goods | 30 - 50 | - |
| Soap | 27 - 35 | 25 - 26 |
| Starch | 38 - 45 | 12 - 14 |
| Starch, air dried | 16 - 20 | 12 - 14 |
| Pasta, macaroni, spaghetti, noodles | 30 - 35 | 11 - 13 |
| Peat | 85 - 90 | 30 - 35 |
| Yarn, washing | 40 - 50 | - |
| Wood, green hard | 50 | 10 - 15 |
| Wood, green soft | 30 - 50 | 10 - 15 |
| Wood, air dried hard | 17 - 20 | 10 - 15 |
| Wood, air dried soft | 10 - 15 | 10 - 15 |
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