Re: Formaldehyde/formic acid/buffered formalin

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Formalin is the name for a 40% solution of Formaldehyde

The breakdown products of formaldehyde are formic acid and carbon monoxide.

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http://www.fact-index.com/f/fo/formaldehyde.html

Health effects

Because formaldehyde resins are used in many construction materials,

including plywood, carpet, and spray-on insulating foams, and because

these resins slowly give off formaldehyde over time, formaldehyde is one

of the more common indoor air pollutants.

Formaldehyde is converted to *formic acid in the body, leading to a rise

in blood acidity, rapid, shallow breathing, hypothermia, and coma or death.

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http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Formaldehyde

It is used as the wet-strength resin added to sanitary paper products

such as (listed in increasing concentrations injected into the paper

machine headstock chest) facial tissue, table napkins, and roll towels.

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http://www.minti.com/parenting-advice/8972/Formaldehyde-In-adult-and-baby-produc\

ts-Even-Diet-Coke/

Registry names: Formaldehyde

Chemical name: Methanal

Synonyms, Trade names:

Formic acid aldehyde, formalin, methyl aldehyde, oxomethane,

methyleneoxide, oxymethylene, formyl hydrate, Formol, Fannoform, BFV,

Formalith, Ivalon, Lysoform, Morbicid, Superslysoform, Tannosynt,

Antverruc, Sandovac, Vobaderin, Q15

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http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/81111_34.html#Identifiers%20and%20Synonyms

Synonyms:

BFV

Fannoform

Formaldehyde, gas

Formaldehyde, solution

Formalin

Formalith

Formic aldehyde

Formol

Fyde

HCHO

Karsan

Lysoform

Methanal

Methyl aldehyde

Methylene oxide

Morbicid

Oxomethane

Oxymethylene

Paraform

Superlysoform

Jane MacRoss wrote:

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> I thought formalin was like formaldehyde and Formic Acid was from ants

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> Formica is now called Laminex? " Formication " is " the sensation of ants

> crawling over you " - it's an " M " not an " N " .

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