Dorothy Murphy Traczyk at Murphy-Traczyk & Associates in Point Pleasant, NJ asks about using hexane for snap-freezing.
I wouldn't want any of the hexanes (there are several isomers) or 2-methylbutane around my lab because of the explosion hazard if I could avoid it. Look up 3M Novec Engineered Fluid HFE-7100 (methyl nonafluoroisobutyl ether) in the Histonet archives (accessible through Google). Probably usable for this purpose, and not flammable. If you do this, please report your experience to Histonet - several of us on here are interested. Bob Richmond Samurai Pathologist Knoxville TN _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
