[Histonet] curious about soaking paraffin blocks.

[Philip Oshel]

Oh? Ok hitting balls with sticks then. I seem to recall doing 
something like that in my misspent youth.
Isn't cricket hitting little ball-shaped bombs with bats that look 
more like paddles? Usually played by robots?

Phil

>"I suspect human tissue is generally fattier than other animals, so a
>dehydration schedule that works for people extracts too much fat from
>other animal tissues, making them "dry" and crumbly."
>Philip
>
>Yes I believe that is the answer I've heard before; that it is not how
>the proteins react to the fixative but what stops the fixative from
>fixing the proteins in the first place. Fat delays the process of
>fixation; absence of fat doesn't. Probably accounts for processing too.
>Fat tissue takes longer to process than thin tissue.
>
>Isn't it hitting balls with sticks not 'hitting sticks with balls'?
>You'd have to keep the stick motionless and throw the ball at it; isn't
>it called cricket anyway?
>
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