degreasing fish skeletons

[Scott Schaefer]

To the bone folks,

AMNH has been using trichloroethylene to de-grease fish skeletons. It
has worked very well with little detrimental effect on the specimens,
however, is now becoming hard to obtain and quite costly.

Can anyone recommend an alternative chemical?

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Scott A. Schaefer                                schaefer at amnh.org
Associate Curator
Dept. of Ichthyology                           voice: 212-769-5652
American Museum of Natural History             fax:   212-769-5642
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New York, NY 10024-5192 U.S.A.