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Is it possible to maintain an environment with low humidity to preserve electronic devices from oxidation without this low humidity drying out plastic and rubber from electronic devices and DVD discs that are plastic and in that environment? in my room I have two digital hygrometers and an air dehumidifier plus 300 with q compressor that stays on all day because the humidity goes up to 70%, while in the dehumidifier the humidity is at 40% in the hygrometers the measurement is at 50% so I set the dehumidifier to 40
 
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they are brittle and brittle so i said they dry but in my situation does this occur?
 
gamer87 said:
they are brittle and brittle so i said they dry but in my situation does this occur?
Google tells me that plastic is attacked by UV light and rubber by ozone.
 
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