Hello Cindy,

My experience with bonecores is that when you decalcify them you loose much (if not all) of your iron-staining. We found that out when we compared cores embedded in paraffin after EDTA-decalcification with cores that where not decalcified and embedded in  resin (Technovit 7100).

Leon Driessen
Orthopaedic Research Laboratory
Dept. Orthopaedics
University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands