formaldehyde

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The unusually high formaldehyde levels detected by satellites served as evidence that methane breakdown was taking place.

From Science Daily • May 10, 2026

Composite wood products can be bound with formaldehyde.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

Preserved in formaldehyde and paraffin wax, they come from patients treated at the UK's national bowel hospital, St Mark's, in northwest London.

From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026

The 2008 auction included more than 200 works by Hirst, from animals in formaldehyde tanks to polka-dot-covered canvases.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 22, 2025

The house became a clutter of trunks, of animals in jars of formaldehyde, of Indian lances and sailor’s bundles.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende