Quotes About Formaldehyde

In recent years, a green burial movement has protested formaldehyde, which oxidizes to formic acid, the toxic in fire ants and bee stingers, as yet one more poison to leach into water tables: careless people, polluting even from the tomb.

I don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would.

What love had been there was already slipping away. She could still sense it like a ghost in the room, vague and inanimate, but she could no longer feel it. Her affection had gone, leached out, like blood from a cadaver. When he squeezed her fingers, she caught the scent of formaldehyde. When he hooked his sad gaze into hers, she saw the glass of his lenses, spattered with blood.

If you play cards with the dead, make sure you deal and don't let them buy you drinks. They'll slip you a formaldehyde roofie and pry the gold fillings out of your teeth.

Such ingredients include thimerosal, known to be very toxic by inhalation, ingestion, and contact with skin yet still included in multidose flu vaccine despite a legitimate public outcry. Other questionable vaccine ingredients include formaldehyde or formalin, chicken kidney cells and DNA, monosodium glutamate, Octoxynol-9 (Triton X-100), used in spermicides, and polysorbate 80, an emulsifier found

Laboratory scientists use formaldehyde as a disinfectant or preservative. They don't fucking drink it.

You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid formaldehyde and then we have to do a rinsing and then we have to coat them in a thin layer of gold.

I liked slicing through the beige brain when it had been fixed; the texture reminded me of cooked cauliflower. It was wonderful to hold this shrunken organ in your hands, the formaldehyde running down over your wrists, and picture the billion firing synapse that for many years had made the cauliflower believe that it was Fred.

I don't want to go to the government, the Schwa says. Yeah, I said. They'd dissect him and put him in a formaldehyde fish tank in Area 51. Howie shook his head. Area 51 is for aliens, he says. They'd probably put him in Area 52.

New carpet will exude poisonous formaldehyde for up to two years after it'd been laid. I know the feeling.

Fill your office with plants and flowers. Spider plants and plants with hairy leaves absorb air pollutants (such as formaldehyde), produce oxygen, and add color to ease you eyes. Chrysanthemums, azaleas, and Gerbera daisies are similarly helpful.

Fears that formaldehyde from vaccines may cause cancer are similar to fears of mercury and aluminum, in that they coalesce around miniscule amounts of the substance in question, amounts considerably smaller than amounts from other common sources of exposure to the same substance.

My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.

her lipstick was formaldehyde amber.