Re: a chemistry question about salt prints

Silver nitrate is the answer you're looking for, I think.

Steve Shapiro, Carmel, CA
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From: "Ryuji Suzuki" <rs@silvergrain.org>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: a chemistry question about salt prints

> From: wrleigh@att.net
> Subject: a chemistry question about salt prints
> Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 13:36:25 +0000
>
> > Purely out of curiosity, does anyone know what form of silver makes
> the image of a salt print? Is it elemental silver particles that
> appear different shades of brown due to their size, or is it a
> silver compound?
>
> Until it is toned, what is visible is metallic silver.
>
> > Also, the color seems to be affected by the specific paper that I
> have used. What causes this?
>
> Depending on what's in the paper, but I think that sort of thing is
> generally difficult to figure out exactly what is doing what.
>
> --
> Ryuji Suzuki
> "You have to realize that junk is not the problem in and of itself.
> Junk is the symptom, not the problem."
> (Bob Dylan 1971; source: No Direction Home by Robert Shelton)
>
Received on Fri Jun 4 19:57:14 2004