formalin
- n a 10% solution of formaldehyde in water; used as a disinfectant or to preserve biological specimens
- After waiting so long to get close to such a prize, the scientists had a tight deadlinethe tissue is so fragile that it needed to be preserved in formalin after samples were .
- But imaginative people perennially underrate efficient ones, and at the time, the kitchen chemist who prepared his vaccine by marinating the virus in formalin was just what .
- The National Institute of Health makes its toxoid by treating live scarlet fever bacilli with formalin and heat.