Tasha,
1. Try 10% Potassium Iodide (KJ) for 5-10 minutes, spot will turn to yellow as
lemon,
then apply 10% Sodum Thiosulfate, wipe it and then talc powder and dry.
2. 15% sodium chloride with some drops hydrochloric acid, then apply 10% Sodum
Thiosulfate,
wash and dry.
Maxim Peshkov,
Russia,
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11:23 AM
To: Campbell, Tasha M.
Cc: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: Re: [Histonet] silver nitrate
You can rub salt on it and it should come up, I our salt on counter and
make a thick scrub
You can use Iodine and than wash with Sodum Thiosulfate
Both work on hands the second
You can rub salt on it and it should come up, I our salt on counter and make a
thick scrub
You can use Iodine and than wash with Sodum Thiosulfate
Both work on hands the second one is a little more difficult to work with but
does work
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Dear Sheila,
I would strongly recommend that you obtain approval from the manufacturer of
the tissue processors into which you will be putting these tissues before you
would begin this practice. The negative accumulative affect on several of the
internal components of the instrument can (and p
Silver nitrate will react in the skin and transform in silver chloride BUT in
order to get black it needs to be exposed to solar or very strong light, and
the reaction is not instantaneous.
Your PT seems that at some point in his/her life s/he got silver nitrate in the
skin that transformed into
Dear Andi,
For staining I'm sure it will make no difference which type of silver nitrate
you use. This compound is available at 99.% purity for analytical purposes!
My experience of silver staining has been mostly with nervous tissue, for which
the ACS reagent grade (99%) is fine. If a sil
