X-Message-Number: 3154
From:   (Keith F. Lynch)
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
Subject: Re: Storing body in inert liquid
Date: 16 Sep 1994 20:00:32 -0400
Message-ID: <35dbj0$>
References: <>

In article <>,
Peter <> wrote:
> Why isn't it possible to store a body at room temperature in some
> form of inert fluid?  ... Are there no liquid's in existence that
> stop decay?

The chemical substances in the body will undergo chemical deterioration
at room temperature regardless of what liquid they are adjacent to.

> How about liquids that change state (like jello) or solidify if an
> electric current is passed through them?

Also regardless of what solid they are adjacent to.  At best, you'd get
some very lifelike looking fossils that way.

> Or is the problem simply that you can't get a liquid to perfuse evenly
> throughout a body?

That's yet another problem.  Nobody's found a non-toxic liquid that will
perfuse into the insides of the cells.
-- 
Keith Lynch, 

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