The fundamental principle in freeze-drying (also known as lyophilization), is sublimation, the shift from a solid directly into a gas. Just like evaporation, sublimation occurs when a molecule gains enough energy to break free from the molecules around it. Water will sublime from a solid (ice) to a gas (vapor) when the molecules have enough energy to break free but the conditions aren’t right for a liquid to form.
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Lyophilization
In the Yellow Pages
Sloan and Whiteside’s House of Bereavement, it read. More than a funeral home, more like a home. Preserve your memories forever. Ask about our new sublimation process.
from Painted Black, the novel
The ad slug for the funeral home where Lexie disappears.
Modern Mummies
Wonder where my inspiration came from for such a gruesome idea as freeze dried human bodies? Click the link below to read a reference to one of the articles that first caught my attention.
Russian collects mummifed bodies
I wonder if my character Sidney Cole comes from a Russian background? If so, I think this article must be about a long lost cousin.
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