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Looking for Melzer's
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I will soon be getting my very own microscope (along with Largent's microscopy book) to aid me in my professional pursuits. 

I'm having trouble obtaining some of the supplies I'll need, though, particularly Melzer's reagent.  If anyone could help me out with this, I would greatly appreciate it!  :smile:

-RebelSteve

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Re: Looking for Melzer's [Re: RebelSteve33]
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Good luck!

The big problem with Meltzer's is that it contains a controlled substance, chloral hydrate. They don't make any allowance for the fact that it's been denatured with iodine so it can't be used as a drug.

Chloral hydrate can be obtained by prescription, but most physicians aren't going to write a prescription for something like that.


You can do a pretty good job by substituting tincture of iodine for Meltzer's. There are a few known differences, but not very many. You can still get tincture of iodine at a drug store for first aid purposes.

Happy mushrooming!


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Re: Looking for Melzer's [Re: ToxicMan]
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It thought this was interesting, from Wikipedia:

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It (Chloral hydrate) is, together with chloroform, a minor side-product of the chlorination  of water  when organic residues are present in the water, though concentrations rarely exceed 5 micrograms per litre


Useless, but interesting!


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