Re: more dag questions

From: Jeff Sumner ^lt;jdos2@mindspring.com>
Date: 01/11/04-10:24:54 AM Z
Message-id: <B06E99B8-4452-11D8-9361-000A957DE356@mindspring.com>

Surprisingly few photographers of the era died due to exposure the
various chemicals, including mercury, raw iodine, raw bromine,
potassium cyanide, &c.
Now, of the back room workers, I can't say.

On Jan 11, 2004, at 5:57 AM, Ender100@aol.com wrote:

> Maybe the people that used it died?
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> In a message dated 1/10/04 10:23:03 PM, pmurf@bellsouth.net writes:
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> There was such an apparatus built in the early 1850's: "Anthony's
> Condensing Mercury Bath".  There's no record of it being
> used extensively. Zinc powder or flakes will amalgam with mercury
> readily, thus it's use in mercury spill kits.
> -Phillip
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Received on Sun Jan 11 10:25:03 2004

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