Re: gold chloride

It may well be fun to do this sort of thing, and the risks, including a
judgement as to one's own competence, need to be assessed before one does it, but,
if the objective is to make pictures, just adding water to a phial of the gold
chloride appears to have its advantages. That is certainly what I will
recommend for the chrysotype rex process.

Terry

In a message dated 23/6/06 10:03:02 pm, jseigel@panix.com writes:

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> On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Robert Hall wrote:
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> > See the Post-Factory Journal #3
> >
> > Web page with contact info...
> >
> > http://unblinkingeye.com/Articles/Post/post.html
>
> thanks Robert... my website has been in meltdown, but if that gives a
> connection to jseigel@post-factory, I think I'm getting that mail now...
>
> But that's not why (or not entirely why) I write... which is to say, that
> the process is not as fraught as it's made out to be by some parties (who
> are not nameless).  Of COURSE you have to be careful, but my guess is that
> ultimately something like dichromates on a regular basis is riskier.
>
> There's a panic about aqua regia because it dissolves platinum, but our
> lungs aren't platinum and contrary to much myth, aqua regia is not like
> sulfuric acid in that it doesn't foam or splash if you add water not
> standing on both feet.  Those issues & many more are further addressed in
> P-F #4, which has other follow-ups, including Cor Bruekel's tale of making
> gold chloride, simple enough so it took just one column!  And Dennis
> Fielding, who made his from "an old 22 carat ring."
>
> That to me is the delight (or part of it anyway) of making yr own: I sent
> Liam what I called, for delicacy's sake, "an ancestral tooth." A relative
> had died after shedding a gold-filled tooth and, knowing I used such
> chemicals, willed it to me.  I packed it in a cell of bubble wrap &
> airmailed to Liam (didn't even weigh over the basic airmail ounce). Liam
> consulted with his dentist who advised dissolving it in (whatever, I
> forget now, but tooth gold is, or was then an amalgum with copper) and
> proceeded to make -- by my recollection something like 40 ounces of gold
> toner working solution.  (The folly of having donated old sorority pin to
> thrift shop became clear.)
>
> Liam also talks about buying gold "trinkets" at flea markets, et al. If
> you love flea markets (breathes there a soul who doesn't love flea
> markets?) it's a great two-fer. He also points out, if you're divorcing,
> KEEP THE RING.
>
> cheers,
>
> Judy
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