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Re: Selenium
Bostick and Sullivan sells selenium toner with no added hypo.
William
Sandy King wrote:
>
> Rod Fleming wrote:
>
> >Hi Sandy
> >
> >If you are going to go to the length of making up toner, perhaps a safer
> >route might be to make up Gold Chloride toner. All the chems are available
> >and given the very toxic nature of selenium (especially in powder form) this
> >might be a Good Idea. All the sources I have read on toning salt prints
> >recommend gold toning rather than selenium anyway.
>
> Rod,
>
> Yes, I am sure gold toning (or platinum) is the way to go with salted
> paper, and I bought some gold choloride to mix a gold toner. However, gold
> toner is rather expensive as you know and I don't really have the salted
> paper technique down well enough to want to waste gold toner on the prints
> I am currently making!.
>
> However, selenium appears to be a lot more toxic than I had imagined so I
> don't think I will be going there either!
>
> Sandy King
>
> BTW, Argyrotype