The Five Steps of The Plastination Technique

Plastination is a process that unites extremely subtle forms of anatomy and advanced polymer chemistry. It permits isolated tissue organs and even whole bodies to be preserved in an extraordinarily durable To stop the Water and lipids In a vacuum After vacuum In the final and realistic way. 1 decomposition of 2 (fats) must be 3 chamber, the 4 impregnation, 5 step, the the specimen, several removed from the body acetone-saturated the body is positioned specimen is hardened. Plastination is a liters of a preservation before polymers can be body is immersed in a as desired. Every single Depending on the unique method of fluid are injected into introduced. The body is bath of low-viscosity anatomical structure polymer used, this is preserving tissue in the arteries. The body immersed in acetone, silicone. Acetone has is properly aligned and done with gas, light, a life-like state. It is then is anatomically a solvent that dissolves a low boiling point, fixed with the help of or heat. Dissection a vacuum process dissected. Depending on body fluids and fats. Ice and when the vacuum wires, needles, clamps, and Plastination of an in which biological the type of dissection, cold acetone is used to is applied, it boils off and foam blocks. entire body requires specimens are this step can take remove fluids, while a and evaporates from about 1,500 working impregnated with several weeks or even room-temperature bath the body. The silicone hours and normally reactive polymers like months. removes fats. permeates the body, takes about one year to silicone rubber, epoxy filling the vacuum complete. or polyester resin. formed when the acetone vacates the tissues.

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