Re: Hypo Eliminators

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• Subject: Re: Hypo Eliminators
• From: Sil Horwitz <silh@earthlink.net>
• Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 00:22:36 -0500
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At 2000/03/27 11:20 AM +0800, Norman Ford wrote:
>Sorry for the dumb question but are you saying that Kodak's "Hypo
>Clearing Agent" w/sodium sulfite, etc. is potentially damaging to a
>silver gelatin print? I'm a little confused by the terms 'wash
>accelerator" and 'hypo eliminator'.

Just the opposite: HCA is a buffered sodium sulfite solution, with some 
additives, and is therefore not highly alkaline. It is a "wash 
accellerator" which aids the removal of fixer and does not break down the 
fixer as do the no longer approved "hypo eliminators."


Sil Horwitz, FPSA
Technical Editor, PSA Journal
teched@psa-photo.org
silh@earthlink.net
Visit  http://www.psa-photo.org/
Personal page: http://home.earthlink.net/~silh/ 

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