Judy, Was there any selenium mixed in with the fix?? - Jon
www.jonathan-bailey.com
Tenants Harbor, Maine
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Judy Seigel [mailto:jseigel@panix.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 11:37 PM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: silver plating
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> On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Ryuji Suzuki wrote:
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> > Silver from fixing bath does not plate out by itself like in developer
> > bath. In order to plate, you would need some electrochemical driving
> > force.
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> AFAIK there's no dye in paper... I stored used PRINT fixer in gallon
> plastic containers for future extraction of the silver and/or disposal..
> With well-used fix there arrived in due course a heavy black deposit on
> the sides, which, by whatever mechanism, must have been silver.
>
> J.
Received on Thu Nov 17 07:27:59 2005
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