AW: [Histonet] "formol"

[Gudrun Lang]

Since each nation has its own characteristics, it’s likely that Spanish
speaking countries and others use „formol“. In Austria I hardly hear
“formol” for formalin or formaldehyd, refering to the chemical. But there
are distributors, that sell formaldehyd under the brandname Formol.

“Formalin” itself isn’t a really chemical correct name, but a proper name
introduced somewhere, isn’t it?

 

I think there is a North-South, East-West gradient in relation to the use of
romanic languages in Europe. Perhaps someone can make a master thesis about
this.

;-)

As long as we speak about the same stuff, it doesn’t matter


 

Best regards

Gudrun

 

 

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Von: Rene J Buesa [mailto:rjbuesa <@t> yahoo.com] 
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 06. Oktober 2011 23:02
An: histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu; gu.lang <@t> gmx.at; SaraBreeden
Betreff: RE: [Histonet] "formol"

 


Formal is what Dr. Lilklie says, FORMOL is methanal (HCHO). 

The name started in Germany in 1891 as the trade name for the 37-40% aq.
sol. of methanal or formaldehyde. It was adopted in Spain and all Hispano
American countries after Dr. Santiago Ramón y Cajal (Nobel Proze in Medicine
along with Golgi) when he translated his silver methods to German.

Please refer to:

Fox, Johnson, Whiting and Roller (1985): Formaldehyde fixation.
J.Histochem.Cytochem; 33(8):845-853

René J.

--- On Thu, 10/6/11, Breeden, Sara <sbreeden <@t> nmda.nmsu.edu> wrote:


From: Breeden, Sara <sbreeden <@t> nmda.nmsu.edu>
Subject: RE: [Histonet] "formol"
To: "Rene J Buesa" <rjbuesa <@t> yahoo.com>, histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu,
gu.lang <@t> gmx.at
Date: Thursday, October 6, 2011, 4:18 PM

Not to put too fine a point on this interesting discussion (or "lecture
series", as it were), I add a little quote from R.D. Lillie,
Histopathologic Technic and Practical Histochemistry, 3rd ed, 1965: "The
word 'formal' [sic], sometimes erroneously used as a synonym, refers
properly to quite another substance, CH3O-Ch2-OCH3, dimethoxymethane."

It matters not  and I'm not even quite sure why I decided to take up the
fight -  what was the question???