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n. - A 10% solution of a very reactive aldehyde HCHO with 90% water.

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  • One by one, the people who were crowded in the room pulled out their handkerchiefs and put them to their eyes, because of the formol.
  • So the day after the doctor gave us the skin sample preserved in a baby-food jar of formol, my wife, her sister, and I went downtown to drop off the sample at the...
  • Bornier, why of course I did, he even called upon me several times, but I could never bring myself to invite him to the house because I should always have been obliged to have...
  • They desire something more than a body in formol, and be sure they 're gonna get it, no matter how many dreads you put in their street.
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