Air-dried methods

Evans, E.P., Breckon, G. and Ford, C.E. (1964). An air-drying method for meiotic preparations from mammalian testes. Cytogenet. Cell Genet. 3 289-294. 

The final process of solvent removal, known as drying, can be conducted by two methods "air-dry and "water-dry . There is also a "continuous air-dry method , which is used in conjunction with "water-dry method ... 

Drying of Double-Base Solvent Propellants. If a volatile solvent, such as acetone, has been used to facilitate the gelatinization of NC with NG, the solvent must be removed for the same reason as described under Drying of Single-Base Propellants. Here the air-drying method is preferred to water-drying because the loss of NG, on evaporation in heated air, is not as great as the loss due to solubility of NG in water (Ref 1)... 

Tarkowski, A. K. (1966), An air-drying method for chromosome preparations from mouse eggs, Cytogenetics 5, 394-400. 

S. S. Hoo and C. A. Bowles, An air-drying method for preparing metaphase chromosomes from the spermatogonial cells of rats and mice, Mutat. Res. 13, 85-88 (1971). 

A. P. Dyban, An improved air-drying method for meiotic and mitotic chromosome preparation from mammalian testes, Tsitologiva 12, 687-690 (1970). 

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