"Formaldehyde" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a drug store drink flavored with formaldehyde. "In the course of forty-eight hours or so that nerve will be as dead as a piece of string. Meantime it may ...
— Odd Numbers - Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford
... if some lethal vapour of highly preservative properties—such as formaldehyde, for instance—could be shed into the atmosphere of this apartment, the entire and complete collection of books and bookworms would be well worth preserving, for the enlightenment of posterity, as a sort of anthropological appendix to the main collection ...
— The Vanishing Man • R. Austin Freeman
... the patient recovers, the room should be disinfected with formaldehyde gas obtained from the substance known as "formalin." This gas may now be obtained from the formalin without the use of heat in the following manner: When everything is ready, and the room properly sealed, thirteen ounces of permanganate of potash to each quart of formalin are placed in a large ...
— Health on the Farm - A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene • H. F. Harris
... virtually an unknown world. Earth colonies had been established on Mars and on Pluto, but Venus, with her harsh formaldehyde atmosphere, had been ignored. Uninhabited, uninhabitable, the ...
— Starman's Quest • Robert Silverberg |
