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
Others note that burials introduce four million tons of embalming fluid into the ground, and 1.6 million tons of concrete.
From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2022
Most embalming fluid is made of formaldehyde, which is not great for marine life, but Love said it wasn’t a huge worry.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2022
A technical mistake: pumped her too full of formaldehyde or embalming fluid or whatever they used.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
