Depending upon their degree of dessication, the chiles should absorb water and be fully hydrated between 1 and 4 hours.. (fieryfoodscentral.com)
Freezer burn is simply dessication — loss of moisture from whatever's being frozen. (fieryfoodscentral.com)
It's likely, he says, that during recovery from dessication, bdelloids pick up genes from members of their own species, too — dead members, that is, whose genes spill out of ruptured cell membranes. (discovermagazine.com)