I've dried maybe > 2kg of desiccant in the microwave by now. Always as slow as possible on low power, but a small percentage of beads overheated anyways and tur

I've dried maybe > 2kg of desiccant in the microwave by now. Always as slow as possible on low power, but a small percentage of beads overheated anyways and turned a very dark color. So now my silica is orange with black dots. I noticed many of these beads are misshapen and smaller than normal. I suspect they got unlucky with the wavelengths somehow, even though they are so small.