RE: Kodak Rapid Selenium Toner

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From: Jonathan Bailey (quryhous@midcoast.com)
Date: 07/21/02-04:20:33 PM Z


Sandy-
>
> --- Sandy King <sanking@clemson.edu> wrote:
> > Does anyone know how long Kodak Rapid Selenium Toner
> > lasts in a
> > partly full bottle?

If it's stock solution, I've never had it go bad. And the work solutions
have an incredible life - even if they are stored in partial bottles:
certainly months and months - even years of life.

The plating out that Eric mentioned is, apparently, elemental selenium (I
had always thought it was silver precipitating out) - the question was just
asked on (another?) list. At any rate, the sediment makes no odds either
way.

Emmet Gowin suggests soaking a few prints overnight in work solutions you
plan to throw away - to absorb the selenium and lessen the toxicity.

Hope this helps.

Jon
www.jonathan-bailey.com
Tenants Harbor, Maine


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