Empakt
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Best Solvent for Dissolving
What do you all suggest would be the best solvent for dissolving fish, biological tissues (acid, base, neutral)?
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Lambda
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Pure Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH) or Potassium Hydroxide (KOH) or a concentrated solution of the same dose a pretty good job.
If however, your intention is to dissolve a corps, or cause other mayhem, then this would be a discussion for another kind Forum.
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I read about a mix of HCl+NaClO3 called "Euchlorin", it is used to dissolve org. materials.
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Oxidizing agents attack organics fairly well. The thing is, do you just want to destructively destroy them, or do you want to put them into solution
and run some sort of analysis on them? Hydroxides are easy ways to destroy hair and the like, hence their inclusion into drain openers, in the
labratory solutions of nitric and occasionally perchloric are used to dissolve organics for trace metal analysis. It all depends on what you are
going to dissolve them for.
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Hello, i am an anthropologist and i am currrently trying to clean an old bone collection. The problem is that these bones have been dumped into
parafine and i was wondering if there would be any chimical treatment that could dissolve parafine?
Thanks
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mantis
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you can dissolve paraffin in toluen or easy in gasoline.
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Just use hot water and detergent (soap). The water has to be hot enough to melt the paraffin.
Molten paraffin behaves like any oil and will be washed away by the detergent.
I suggest that you first try to put the bones in plain boiling water. The paraffin will melt and is very likely that most of it, if not all, will just
float away.
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