Re: glutaraldehyde

From: Ryuji Suzuki <rs@silvergrain.org>
Subject: Re: glutaraldehyde
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 20:49:57 -0500 (EST)

> You are not getting one point I said in my previous email. Mechanical
> strength of dry gelatin is little influenced by hardening. Dry
> properties of gelatin is mostly determined by the viscosity of the
> gelatin sol used to coat, and the condition at which the gelatin was
> gelated. All these can be modified by addition of plasticizing agents,
> of course. See for example Kozlov 1983. The structure and properties
> of solid gelatin and the principles of their modification. Polymer,
> 24, 651-666.

The Journal web site indicates that this article is not available
electronically, but when I googled it, I found this particular article
at:

http://albumen.stanford.edu/library/c20/kozlov1983.html

FYI

--
Ryuji Suzuki
"All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie." (Bob Dylan 2000)