Does anyone know how to decalcify fish bone in a efficient way?

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Rakesh Prasad Bhagat

So far I know, if you take a tiny fish specimen and want to decalcify it then first of all, demuscularize it with the help of aqueous KOH solution. Once, you get the skeleton and if, you further, want to decalcify/deminerilize it then then keep it in dilute HCl solution and boil the same for a while and finally treat it in a boiling aqueous glycerine.

Jiao Yuyang

Thank you for your answer. However, because HCl is a strong acid, will it cause some serious damage to the structure?

Shahbaa Khalil

I think y can use strong acid as formic acid or HCL & cheek bone by pin boint when it becom as spongy remove the bone from acid .

Thank you for your answer, Shahbaa!