Product code: RXSOL-60-6605-185
- Usage unit
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Bottle
- Quantity per unit
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1.00
Once paraformaldehyde is depolymerized, the resulting formaldehyde may be used as a fumigant, disinfectant, fungicide, and fixative. Longer chain-length (high molecular weight) polyoxymethylenes are used as a thermoplastic and are known as polyoxymethylene plastic (POM, Delrin).
Application
Paraformaldehyde PFA has been widely used as a cross-linking fixation agent. It has been empirically recognized in a gold standard protocol that the PFA concentration for cell fixation, C PFA, is 4 percent
Procedure
Paraformaldehyde is used as a disinfectant, hardening agent and waterproofing agent.
Other names
PARAFORMALDEHYDE PURE
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Note
Paraformaldehyde is a cross-linking fixative used in histology, light and electron microscopy and flow cytometry