For the last term I've been working out a protocol (actually two) that would dissolve wood, fungi, and organic soils if need be. The main focus has been on wood and fungi fruiting body dissolutions since that is what my samples are.

For both protocols things are relatively the same. The main difference between the two is how I dissolve the sample, or rather with which acids.

In protocol 1, I dissolved the wood sample in HF and nitric in an acid bomb. It worked, but it...