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Finally, rub down the wood to remove the splinters, give it a thin wash of acrylic paint and brush on the clear preservative.
The chemical, also known by the trade name Rithialate, is used in vaccine manufacturing as a preservative.
Formaldehyde is used widely as a tissue preservative in pathology laboratories and embalming services.
Syra is diluted with water and ingested or used as a marinade or preservative for meat and other food.
Penetrating stains or preservative treatments are preferred for rough sawn lumber.
It includes preservative and a dash of herbs, and helps bind the fine-chopped sausage meat.
Salt, because of its preservative quality, represented purity and incorruptibility.
Similarly, embalming, which replaces the blood with a preservative fluid, is ill-advised.
Yesterday I did suggest that we could look for the foods with the highest preservative content and just eat those.
The acetic acid in vinegar has a disinfectant effect, so that vinegar is a better preservative than other acid liquids of the same strength.
As I said, preservative processes are always partly constructive processes.
Steps were rapidly taken to remove thimerosal from vaccines by switching to single-dose vials that did not require any preservative.
The third change is that the new vaccine does not contain the mercury-based preservative thiomersal.
The vaccine does not contain the mercury-based preservative thiomersal, unlike the existing version.
Scientists were zapping cans of horse meat with high radiation, trying to establish the preservative value of food irradiation.
It needs to dry out a bit before we can recoat it with a water-based wood preservative.
Apricots are usually treated with sulphur dioxide, a preservative, before being sun dried.
It is a powder that is nearly 50 percent mercury and is added to vaccines and other biologics as a preservative.
We use a modern water-based timber preservative that doesn't flake, and we just put on one coat with no need for preparation.
Buildings and artefacts from different periods had been waterlogged and covered in silt, which acted as a perfect preservative.
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Examples from Classical Literature
When they are mummified, it is merely owing to the preservative action of the salt in the soil, not to any process of embalming.
It is not true that mincemeat will keep all winter, even by this preservative.
The camphor, thus incorporated with the preservative, does not volatilize so easily as when used in powder.
They also ferment readily, although a small percentage of preservative, such as benzoate of soda, will halt spoilage.
The use of benzoic acid as a food preservative illustrates several phases of the controversy.
Lakshmi, as we have just noticed, is the Sakti or consort of Vishnu, the preservative power of the deity.
It is their preservative instinct which teaches them to be flighty, lightsome, and false.
Myrrh and mastic are employed on account of their odour, and their presumed preservative action and power of fixing loose teeth.
It is a product of the dry distillation of organic bodies, and is the preservative principle of wood smoke and pyroligneous acid.
As an example of the action of lime as a preservative of lumber.
The latter is a carrier of potash, and is a preservative of nitrogen.
They were very dark from the preservative in which they had been kept, and the skin had almost the look of leather.
There are two bottles of medium, one adhesive and one preservative.
There was but little decomposition, a fact attributed to some preservative property in the mineral-bearing soil.
This facile adaptation was at once the symptom of perfect health and its best preservative.
I took that body along, encased in the Martian preservative, solidifex.
Bodies in the dissecting-rooms are injected with preservative fluid.
But Jack Frost is a good preservative, and so nothing spoiled.
Where we get into trouble is when we stop using the surface finish as a solderability preservative and leave the metal areas unsoldered.
Creosote, the common but environmentally unfriendly wood preservative used through most of the 20th century, was banned in Maine 10 years ago.
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