Freeze-drying the mixture wouldn't work because it would come out as a clumpy, cakelike substance.

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They treat the fibroin with salt, then mix it with the substance to be preserved and spread the result out as films, before freeze-drying it.

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It also minimises residual moisture even better than normal freeze-drying.

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The SIVs had to be brought back onto banks' balance sheets, leading to huge write-downs, losses and the drying up interbank lending that led to the global credit freeze.

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