I like this article's discussion of the history of usuage and terminology: citation Fox, C., Johnson, F., Whiting, J., and Roller, P. Formaldehyde Fixation, The Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry, Vol. 33, No.8, pp. 845-853, 1985.
Joelle Weaver MAOM, BA, (HTL) ASCP > Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 08:56:55 -0600 > From: sbree...@nmda.nmsu.edu > To: gudrun.eriks...@stolav.no; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > Subject: RE: [Histonet] Difference between Neutral Buffered Formalin 10% > andNBformaldehyde 3.7 to 4% > CC: > > Now, wait just a minute! Don't tell me that after 40+ years of being a > histotech that I've been WRONG all this time??? FORMALDEHYDE is > FORMALDEHYDE is FORMALDEHYDE. FORMALIN is the diluted form of > FORMALDEHYDE, buffered and used at (usually) 10%. If I'm wrong, this > will be my last day at work... :) > > _______________________________________________ > Histonet mailing list > Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
