embalming fluid
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Fluid and gases in the body's organs are also removed and replaced with embalming fluid.
From BBC • Nov. 8, 2023
“A man stung by the presidential bee contracts an incurable disease that only embalming fluid can cure,” FDR adviser Harold Ickes said of New York Gov. Thomas Dewey in 1949.
From Washington Post • Jan. 5, 2023
But the worst gravesite pollutant is embalming fluid, a chemical cocktail of formaldehyde, methanol, and ethanol.
From Slate • Oct. 31, 2022
Freezine contained formaldehyde, an ingredient in embalming fluid, that was toxic and commonly mixed with rancid milk.
From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2018
My parents smell like a mixture of gardenias and embalming fluid, even in the evenings after their showers.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
