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[imp]

One of my suppliers does not offer Formaldehyde, or Formalin, but only Paraformaldehyde.

 

As I understand it, perhaps not quite correctly, paraformaldehyde is an isomer in powdered form. My question specifically is, if gentle heating liberates formaldehyde gas, can someone tell me whether volume/pressures obtained are adequate to bubble the gas through water to obtain formaldehyde solution? Can 37% be achieved. Or, is some other scheme possible to utilize paraformaldehyde.

 

My mother-in-law is coming to visit soon! Imp.

[Tom Mattson]

I am totally laughing my ass off.

[imp]

I am totally laughing my ass off.

 

Shame on you for laughing at another's misfortune!! imp

[Tom Mattson]

What?? You mean that wasn't a joke?

 

Try to see it from my point of view. You're asking this question about formaldehyde--you know, that stuff they use to preserve dead people. Then you announce that your mother in law is coming. Come on, you don't see the obvious joke there?

[Wormwood]

I'm not sure if you are an embalmer or what, but paraformaldehyde becomes usable as formaldehyde when you boil it in phosphate buffered saline and stir it. If it were my first time to embalm someone, I would be much more worried about packing the anus to prevent leakage then I would about the formaldehyde.

[YT2095]

Sage and Onion stuffing, No Sweat

[imp]

What?? You mean that wasn't a joke?

 

Try to see it from my point of view. You're asking this question about formaldehyde--you know, that stuff they use to preserve dead people. Then you announce that your mother in law is coming. Come on, you don't see the obvious joke there?

 

Of course I wrote it as a joke! That was to throw off readers' considerations that the formaldehyde might be used for some dastardly purpose! Now I have to figure out some other kind of "cover".

 

Anyhow, I really wanted to know if paraformaldehyde is easily converted into the water solution form. imp

 

PS: No, I'm not an embalmer, perish the thought. Not even a chemist. Not even a qualified.............you get the idea. That's why I ask questions, and hopefully, people will answer them. Thanks for the help!

[imp]

I'm not sure if you are an embalmer or what, but paraformaldehyde becomes usable as formaldehyde when you boil it in phosphate buffered saline and stir it. If it were my first time to embalm someone, I would be much more worried about packing the anus to prevent leakage then I would about the formaldehyde.

 

Thank you! Now, I need the formaldehyde to react it with other stuff, not preserve dead meat. My post title was intended to get someone to look, rather than breeze by. Your method would muddy the water so to speak with additional ingredients, or am I wrong? For some reason, they sell para- but not the water solution; believe both require haz-matting by common carrier.

 

imp

[richard]

Your'e trying to put the mmmmMMMMMmmmm back into Mattsons aren't you. Improve the shelf life of the sausage too no doubt.

[Tom Mattson]

Hey, I don't know who YT was talking about stuffing but it had better NOT be me! :-O