[Histonet] "decal [sic] question"

[Louise Renton]

funny, I thought a decal was a sort of transfer for decorating things with
 - like guitars and hot rods - what others call "stickers" hard to trademark
a word like that!

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Bob Richmond <rsrichmond <@t> gmail.com> wrote:

> Bernice Frederick HTL (ASCP), Senior Research Tech at the  Pathology
> Core Facility of the  Robert. H. Lurie Cancer Center at Northwestern
> University in Chicago notes"
>
> >>Ann Preece states acid decal uses aqueous solutions of either formic,
> nitric, or trichloroacetic acid. Other methods mentioned are Ion-exchange
> resin, electrical ionization and chelation. The histo bible!<<
>
> You've got to be almost as geezer as me to remember when Ann Preece's
> "A Manual for Histologic Technicians" was the histo bible. I was
> fortunate to be able to purloin a pristine (no stain spills) copy of
> the third edition (1972) from the wreckage of an old histology lab
> about 20 years ago.
>
> Indeed, Patsy Ruegg! "Decal" is a trademark of the Decal Chemical
> Corporation and should not be used generically for decalcifying
> solutions. See decal-bone.com
>
> Bob Richmond
> Samurai Pathologist
> Knoxville TN
>
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