Tyrone,
American Master Tech carries a product called Bouins 2000 which contains
no picric acid. Search it on their website - they carry it in various
sizes.'
Laurie Colbert
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From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Hi Tyrone:
Picric acid may be bad for some silver stains but not for all. Williams
fix is recommended for the Bodain method and I have used it with
excellent results on mouse brain.
Also overnight immersion fixation of a whole fish - you did not say how
large- is not going to give good
Bouin's without picric acid is an oxymoron, is like saying neutral buffered
formalin without the buffer.
By definition, and resulting from the original formula, Bouin requires picric
acid, that is the whole rationale behind this fixative.
There are commercial products called Bouin that do not
