Re: Cyanotype Questions

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From: Sil Horwitz (silh@earthlink.net)
Date: 05/11/00-01:15:20 PM Z


At 2000/05/11 01:13 PM -0400, Judy wrote: (much snipped)
>Have you thought of distilling your own? There seem to be modestly priced
>units... But I wish I could send you some... friend using my darkroom has
>the dehumidifier going, maybe half gallon a day of what is apparently
>distilled water goes down the drain. I'd be leery of using it to mix
>chemicals (any info out there?), but your pomegranate tree might like it.

Water from a dehumidifier might be OK to water plants, but definitely not
to mix chemicals. It contains fungus spores, dust particles, and anything
else that may be inhabiting the ambient air, not to mention possible
contamination by compounds dissolved from the coils themselves. Cruddy
stuff. (And that's from experience, not theory!)

Sil Horwitz, FPSA
Technical Editor, PSA Journal
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silh@earthlink.net
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