funny, I thought a decal was a sort of transfer for decorating things with - like guitars and hot rods - what others call "stickers" hard to trademark a word like that!
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Bob Richmond <rsrichm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Bernice Frederick HTL (ASCP), Senior Research Tech at the Pathology > Core Facility of the Robert. H. Lurie Cancer Center at Northwestern > University in Chicago notes" > > >>Ann Preece states acid decal uses aqueous solutions of either formic, > nitric, or trichloroacetic acid. Other methods mentioned are Ion-exchange > resin, electrical ionization and chelation. The histo bible!<< > > You've got to be almost as geezer as me to remember when Ann Preece's > "A Manual for Histologic Technicians" was the histo bible. I was > fortunate to be able to purloin a pristine (no stain spills) copy of > the third edition (1972) from the wreckage of an old histology lab > about 20 years ago. > > Indeed, Patsy Ruegg! "Decal" is a trademark of the Decal Chemical > Corporation and should not be used generically for decalcifying > solutions. See decal-bone.com > > Bob Richmond > Samurai Pathologist > Knoxville TN > > _______________________________________________ > Histonet mailing list > Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet > -- Louise Renton Bone Research Unit University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg South Africa +27 11 717 2298 (tel & fax) 073 5574456 (emergencies only) Question: Are rhinos overweight unicorns? _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet