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from "Mike Lyle" contains these words:

Find a delicatessen which receives chilled (not frozen) products.
The
gel is packed into pods like large strips of bubble-wrap, and
frozen,
then used to keep the contents of the boxes cool in transit. They
are
usually thrown away.

That's a brilliant suggestion! Tell me, is it the same stuff as the
silica gel used to keep water out of cameras and things in transit,
and for drying the inside of your gumboots? (Fly-fishers should take
note, too.)

No. Silica gel remains solid even when it has absorbed its full
complement of water.

This stuff dries down to a fraction of its size if you leave it out,
then when you add water it swells to clear jelly - about the consistency
of Chivtree's jelly cubes.

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