Re: [Aroid-l] Off the wall question from a newbie. preserving the

From: Steve Marak <samarak at gizmoworks.com> on 2009.01.20 at 06:17:37(18935) Although it's not a technique that's available to most of us - certainly not to me - some years back I read an article about using vacuum dessication for preserving all sorts of specimens, plant and otherwise, with remarkable results. I think I recall that they combined this with cold, so that the water just sublimed out of the specimen. Steve +More On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, bonaventure@optonline.net wrote: > Scary thing. I'd think you'd have to run a perfusion line through it. > Replace its internal fluids with a formaldehyde solution (Formalin, > embalming fluid). Somewhere in there there must be a beating heart! > No, seriously, I saw this on the Discovery Channel - scientists took the > freshly deceased corpse of a giant squid and soaked it in a huge vat of > said solution with multiple injections by syringe into the body for an > even infusion. I don't recall if they did an ethanol series dehydration > first (50, 70, 85, 95, 100%). This took several months but had to be > initiated quickly to inhibit the growth of bacteria which were already > present in the tissues of the squid. > Perhaps the American Museum of Natural History (?) would be interested > in hanging the preserved titanum next to the giant squid for a really > macabre display! > Bonaventure Magrys -- Steve Marak -- samarak@gizmoworks.com _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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