Word: formalin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said that the preservation of the fetus in Formalin, a liquid solution of formaldehyde, dehydrated the fetus so that it weighed less at the autopsy than it did at the time of the operation...
Homans cited a list of scientific papers on the effect of preservation in Formalin on tissue weight and, after establishing that Ward was familiar with none of them, suggested that the doctor was not qualified to speculate on the age of the fetus...
...maintains a tiny wooden chapel that he built as a holy place. Inside the cathedral, 3,000,000 pilgrims a year file past his marble tomb. Also in the gallery, until recently, was Brother Andre's heart, preserved in an urn filled with a formalin solution. Then on the night of March 15, in one of the decade's more peculiar crimes, someone stole the heart...
...lessons of history is that art is a better preservative than Formalin, and sweeter smelling, too. Even if the patron is an outright criminal while alive, he seems, after he dies, to take on the noble and decorative character of the works of art that he bought...
...composer's temporal bones, no one can be certain. When his skull was exhumed in 1863 and 1888, those bones were missing. Evidently they were saved at the time of the original autopsy. Stevens and Hemenway conclude that "perhaps in a forgotten cellar in Vienna, a small formalin-filled jar holds the answer...