If you are stirring a powder into water ovenight
(or a shorter time in warm aqueous NaOH)
to make your fixative, you are making a solution
of paraformaldehyde (probably 1 or 2% w/v).
If your fixative comes out of a big plastic jug
from Sigma (etc.), it is formalin.
Mark Miller
mamiller@wista.wistar.upenn.edu
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