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  • With bluish-tan parts of a human being floating inside, suspended in a formaline solution.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2003

  • With a rubber globe, remove the tails and paws from the formaline solution and wash them thoroughly in detergent (borax, tide, baking soda, or sodium bicarbonate).

    1. Slaughtering 1982

  • Paws and tails are treated in formaline and dried.

    Chapter 18 1982

  • In a plastic container, mix 2 liters formaline and 1 liter water (2: 1).

    1. Slaughtering 1982

  • If the bones are still soft, leave in the formaline solution longer.

    1. Slaughtering 1982

  • In contrast, sections of vessel sterilized - and killed - by boiling, or indeed with formaline-glycerine or by any other method, proved to be unusable.

    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1912 - Presentation Speech 1967

  • When carbolic acid, formaline, bleaching powder, and caustic soda are used, the hands should be protected and the clothes should be well rinsed.

    Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value Harry Snyder

  • But as a rule formaline is preferable for disinfecting clothing.

    Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value Harry Snyder

  • Cellars should be frequently cleaned and disinfected, using for the purpose some of the well-known disinfectants, as formaline, bleaching powder, or a dilute solution of carbolic acid.

    Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value Harry Snyder

  • For him, the sight of the formaline or formaldyhyde-laden corpses at the Siriaj Hospital Museum as well as the girl who introduced him to them seemed to have exhilarated a nascent courage, an oozing, a growth hormone of the mind.

    Corpus of a Siam Mosquito

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