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Moisture on dry basis cannot be more than a hundred percentage.

(a) True

(b) False

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I'm obligated to ask this question of Unit Operations in chapter Heat Transfer Equipment, Microwave Heating, Evaporation, Diffusion and Mass Transfer and Dehydration of Food Engineering

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The correct answer is (b) False

For explanation: In dry basis analysis, the denominator is only the weight of the solid. Hence it can be lesser than the overall moisture content which is the numerator. ((Weight of moisture present at any time)/(Weight of dry solid))

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