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From: yichao wu [mailto:yichaowu@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 1:25 AM
To: histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
Subject: Is isopentane safe and could it be used in -70C firdge?

For making frozen sections, I wonder whether could  I pre-freeze isopentane in a -70C fridge,and then snap freeze the specimen in it?

 

I know commonly people use dry-ice or LN2 to precool isopentane.But I wonder if -70C firdge could subsititute dry-ice for convenience?

 

BTW,how safe is isopentane? How will it explode?

 

Yichao WU     (yichaowu@hotmail.com)

Jinling Hospital

Nanjing China 

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