Cryoprotectants

Actually, it is not water really, but what they call cryoprotectants, think of the stuff as anti-freeze for the cryogenetically challenged, needed to so your body will not develop ice crystals and destroy your tissue and organs when cooled down to -130 Centigrade. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Chemicals called cryoprotectants can prevent this but they must be used before the cells are frozen. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"What's the point?" said Mr. Hake as cryoprotectants were administered to his body in order to prevent freezing. ❋ Pablo Andreu (2011)

It is then protected using cryoprotectants and then freeze dried to form a powder before being blended with the other components of Protexin concentrate in exact concentrations. ❋ Thatsnews (2008)

With no cryoprotectants present, the cells will be subjected to a high salt concentration and frozen into channels where no cryoprotectant is likely to appear, in order to mitigate this salt. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The cryoprotectants used are colligative in action, glucose and glycerol are two of the most common cryoprotectants (a particular species confines itself to the use of a single cryoprotectant). ❋ Unknown (2004)

The cryoprotectants used by freeze tolerant species are similar (almost exactly so) to the compounds used by freeze avoidant insects to colligatively depress the freezing point. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The strategies employed are legion, although the principle means for minimizing injury from ice formation is the use of cryoprotectants to reduce the amount of ice formed and the salt concentration at a given temperature. ❋ Unknown (2004)

In the old method (being used when Ralph and I first talked) physicians mixed water with anitfreeze chemicals (cryoprotectants), pumped the solution into your body, and then dropped your body temperature to nearly absolute zero. ❋ William Shatner (2002)

And that, in turn, means that you would be thoroughly pickled in cryoprotectants. ❋ William Shatner (2002)