Plastination
Of preservation.
A process involving fixation and dehydration and forced impregnation and hardening of biological tissues; water and lipids are replaced by curable polymers (silicone or epoxy or polyester) that are subsequently hardened; "the plastination of specimens is valuable for research and teaching".
This concept's ID is @1~67845
Contains
- dehydration
The process of extracting moisture.
- hardening
The process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization; "the hardening...
- fixing
(histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible...
- saturation
The process of totally saturating something with a substance; "the impregnation of wood...