Mechanism question, with some background in the text below:

Through what steps does immersion in Bouin's fluid (with picric acid) or
acid alcohol "set" India ink, or other cutting-in station coloured inks,
onto tissues?

Somehow I expect that Dr Monson will have this information at his fingers'
tips.

Best thanks for any replies

Alex K

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>The principal active ingredient in Bouin's fluid is picric acid, which is
>mostly ionized above 
>pH 2.  In some cases picric acid does act as a mordant.  I don't think it
>does in this case.  "Mordanting" implies a particular mechanism; I use the
>word only where there is evidence for such a mechanism.
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>Allen A. Smith, Ph.D.
>Barry University
>School of Graduate Medical Sciences
>    Podiatric Medicine and Surgery
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>-- is it thus wrong to write (or as I do to dictate during gross
>descriptions) "The resection margins are inked black and the ink is
>mordanted in Bouin's fluid / acid alcohol"?
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>Alex K
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>At 12:23 28/08/02 -0400, you wrote:
>>   A mordant is an ion,  almost always metallic, that binds to something in
>>the tissue and to the  dye.  a dye  molecule that binds to the mordant or
>>directly to a part of the  tissue.   Allen A. Smith, Ph.D.
>>Barry University
>>School of Graduate Medical  Sciences
>>    Podiatric Medicine and Surgery
>>  33161-6695     -----Original Message-----
>>From: kevin williams    [mailto:akwilliams75@hotmail.com]
>>Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002    11:23 AM
>>To: HistoNet Server
>>Subject: The difference    between a Mordant and an Auxocrome
>>
>>          are they one    in the same.    Thanks for all your help Kev.   
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>Alex Knisely, MD
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Alex Knisely, MD
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