June 2003 Alt-Photo-Process-L: Re: traveling with photo chemicals

From: Christopher Lovenguth (zantzant@hotmail.com)
Date: 06/05/03-03:08:23 PM Z

Actually I have a similar situation about to happen this summer (and I’m traveling from the west coast to the east coast). I’m still not sure if I’m driving but I’m also worried if I have to ship as well. I’m dealing with iodine crystals, hypo and gold chloride. All these can be shipped to me from a retailer, but I’m worried about just sending them through UPS or something to myself. I know I’ll have to send it ground but I wonder about the iodine since the government keeps a paper trail on all who buy it. Then there is the gold chloride that I have some in dry form and some in solution. I’m worried about heat with that item. The hypo I think could be shipped by air even so I’m not too worried about that chemical.

Anybody had any experience shipping opened chemicals?

-Chris

>From: Stuart Phillips

>Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca

>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca

>Subject: Re: traveling with photo chemicals

>Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 16:35:23 -0400

>To be more serious, depending on where you are, the temperature inside your

>car may get hotter, especially if you park. When I lived in Kuwait (outside

>max shade temperatures in the summer around 130F), the inside of cars would

>get hotter. Cassette boxes would bend, and I had small canned air and asthma

>inhalers explode in the glovebox.

>----- Original Message -----

>From: "Sil Horwitz"

>To:

>Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 12:38 PM

>Subject: Re: traveling with photo chemicals

> > -------Original Message-------

> > From: "Christina Z. Anderson"

> > Sent: 06/05/03 11:25 AM

> > To: Alt list

> > Subject: traveling with photo chemicals

> >

> > >

> > > Good morning!

> > This is such a weird question, forgive me:

> > Is there a problem with traveling long distances in a car with a

> > pound plastic jar of dry ammonium dichromate or potassium dichromate? My

> > husband is the one carrying the chemicals (driving 2 cars) and I would

>hate to

> > see his car extinguish ahead of me on the road :)

> > Chris

> >

> > If the temperature will not rise above 140 degreees F, there should not be

> > a problem with either one. The ammonium salt, however, will decompose when

> > heated (don't have my reference book with me, but you can check the MSDS

> > for critical temperature). The potassium salt is quite stable unless

>heated

> > to ignition, which should not happen in your car. I do recommend, however,

> > that you wrap the jar in plastic (or put it in a plastic ziplock or

> > equivalent bag) and cushion it with bubble wrap or plastic foam pieces,

>just in

> > case (horrors! Let's hope not) the car is involved in an accident, to

>prevent

> > this very toxic material from causing even more trouble. Incomplete

> > answer, but without my reference material it's the best I can do from the

>top of

> > my head! --sil