"Formaldehyde" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... zinc sulphate, tannin and alum, applied several times daily, with or without the supplementary use of dusting-powders. Weak solutions of formaldehyde, one to one hundred, are sometimes ...
— Essentials of Diseases of the Skin • Henry Weightman Stelwagon
... eight gallons of water and soak the seed potatoes in this solution for one and one-half hours before cutting. This treatment kills the scab spores which may be upon the exterior of the potatoes. More recently, however, to avoid danger in handling such a rank poison as corrosive sublimate, formaldehyde has been used, and one pint of commercial formaldehyde, as it is bought in the stores, is diluted with thirty gallons of water, and potatoes are soaked in this for two hours. Thirty gallons of this dip ought to treat about fifty bushels ...
— One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered • E.J. Wickson
... Formaldehyde is a powerful germicide, but its penetrating vapor restricts its use. These disinfectants are but little used in the final sterilisation of apparatus, chiefly on account of the difficulty of effecting their complete removal, for the presence of even traces of these chemicals ...
— The Elements of Bacteriological Technique • John William Henry Eyre
... nation's thanks are due To Arethusa and to you—- To her who dauntless at your side Pneumonia and Flue defied With phials of formaldehyde! ...
— In Secret • Robert W. Chambers
... the yegg. While the officer to whom he was manacled paid close attention to the postmaster, who told him that although yeggs had spoiled his safe for a third time, he had protected his own and the government's valuables by having placed a quart bottle of formaldehyde in the safe, Boston Frank contrived to whisper to Joe that he had Slippery's purse in his hip pocket, and for him to take it and keep its contents, as he himself would have little use for cash in the penitentiary, for a long term now stared him in the face, ...
— The Trail of the Tramp • A-No. 1 (AKA Leon Ray Livingston) |
