[Alt-photo] Re: Sulfamic Acid for Paper Acidification

Earl Johnson earlj at comcast.net
Sat May 4 13:57:31 UTC 2013


Sulfamic acid is available at the big box home repair stores as grout 
cleaner. It is also one of the key ingredients in Mike Ware's argyrotype 
formula.

Earl Johnson


On 5/3/2013 7:07 AM, Serdar Bilici wrote:
> This happens to be my first post to this group so hello everyone,
>
> I have been working with alt. processes for over a year now. Recently, I
> tried different acids for neutralizing alkaline buffers in certain papers
> and I believe I have found an alternative acid for this purpose.
>
> I have tested sulfamic acid for paper acidification and it turns out SA is
> such a good performer. I have already posted the details and some samples on
> APUG. So I would share the link with you.
>
> http://www.apug.org/forums/forum42/118153-sulfamic-acid-paper-acidification.
> html
>
> I would be pleased to hear your opinions, suggestions for optimizing the
> procedure.
> I did some test using new cyanotype, argyrotype and Loris did some testing
> with ziatype and argyrotype.
> If you happen to test it with other papers or processes I am quite
> interested to hear your results.
>
> And I should agains thank Loris Medici for all his support and guidance
> during this process.
>
> Regards
> Serdar Bilici
>
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