Formal is what Dr. Lilklie says, FORMOL is methanal (HCHO). The name started in Germany in 1891 as the trade name for the 37-40% aq. sol. of methanal or formaldehyde. It was adopted in Spain and all Hispano American countries after Dr. Santiago Ramón y Cajal (Nobel Proze in Medicine along with Golgi) when he translated his silver methods to German. Please refer to: Fox, Johnson, Whiting and Roller (1985): Formaldehyde fixation. J.Histochem.Cytochem; 33(8):845-853 René J.
--- On Thu, 10/6/11, Breeden, Sara <sbree...@nmda.nmsu.edu> wrote: From: Breeden, Sara <sbree...@nmda.nmsu.edu> Subject: RE: [Histonet] "formol" To: "Rene J Buesa" <rjbu...@yahoo.com>, histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu, gu.l...@gmx.at Date: Thursday, October 6, 2011, 4:18 PM Not to put too fine a point on this interesting discussion (or "lecture series", as it were), I add a little quote from R.D. Lillie, Histopathologic Technic and Practical Histochemistry, 3rd ed, 1965: "The word 'formal' [sic], sometimes erroneously used as a synonym, refers properly to quite another substance, CH3O-Ch2-OCH3, dimethoxymethane." It matters not and I'm not even quite sure why I decided to take up the fight - what was the question??? _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
