Re: EDTA

George Mackie (mackie@uvic.ca)
Mon, 15 Dec 1997 09:36:02 -0800 (PST)

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It is ethylene diamine tetra-acetic acid, a chelating agent, used for
binding Ca++ and other divalent cations. I dont know what its used for in
photography, but thats what we use it for in biomedical research.
george

On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Ole Chr. Magneshaugen wrote:

> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 16:17:13 +0100
> From: "Ole Chr. Magneshaugen" <ocm@eidolon.no>
> To: "Alt.Photo.List (E-post)" <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
> Subject: EDTA
>
> Looking through my chemical supplies catalogue, I found several references to EDTA-compounds. Is EDTA somewhat a generic term? Could someone explain? Could all "versions" be used or just the sodium salt ones?
>
> -olechr
>

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