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Re: "serum of milk"



On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Dirk-Jan Treffers wrote:

It certainly is the best to make cheese. And thus the best way to make
whey. There's only one problem: cheesemakers have no intention to use
whay for other purposes than food-industry. I'm not sure the enzyme is
harmless to, say, paper sizing materials (i.e. gelatin), and how it
effects the lifetime of your photo. It might even make moulding (is
that a word?? things like fungae and stuff..... ) of the final image
possible.
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One of the Photo Miniature articles mentioned that bugs -- especially the "American water bug " -- had an affinity for the platinum emulsion of platinum prints... that some prints had had the entire surface removed (eaten) by bugs, but leaving the paper intact...

J.