[alt-photo] Re: "Expired" dichromate

[Trevor Cunningham]

Well, as it turns out, the chemical supplier had regular ammonium 
dichromate in dry crystal form, so I'm all good and can get started...

New badass printer: check
A stash of pictorico: check (thanks David)
Interesting paper variety: check (again, thanks David)
PF + FAC: check
AD + GA: check
cloudless skies: check

I'm so stoked.



Judy Seigel wrote:
> Trying to cut back on the 20 thousand messages in my incoming file, 
> I'm deleting deleting deleting... but a couple need comments.  I 
> forget what intimate family member admonished me, "you can't correct 
> the world," but my reply then was, "I can at least try."  Sometimes, 
> however, it's easy:
>
> I wrote", "As I understand it, the more a chemical is diluted the less 
> well it keeps..."
>
> And on Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Tomas Sobota remarked:
>
>> By that you would say that Sodium chloride does not keep well in 
>> seawater ?
>
> I have no idea -- nor do you:  "Seawater" is not a constant, any more 
> than "person" or "earth" or even "air" is a constant, so how sodium 
> chloride (pure or not) keeps in it has so many variables as to defy 
> precision, not to mention that it may originate with the deep sea 
> demon whose supply comes from the bowels of the earth and varies with 
> the year, month, day, temperature, elevation, location, and her mood 
> of the moment.
>
> J.
>
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