Isopropyl alcohol solutions of 90-99% are used to preserve specimens.
He did not set and preserve specimens in cabinets, however.
But the actors are obviously preserved specimens.
No doubt the ice sheet preserves specimens that would weather away more quickly in other regions.
For the first 20 years plastination was used to preserve small specimens for medical study.
Visitors can watch as conservators work to preserve and study anthropological specimens from all over the world.
These records, some of which are still in existence, preserve specimens of ornate verse composition.
As a less expensive alternative to pure ethanol in preserving biological specimens.
For some time, they were prisoners of the Collector, a cosmic being interested in preserving unique specimens of life.
However he continued his work right through September and finally managed to preserve specimens of each stage of development including a few larvae.