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Developing in Urine

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That might help keep it closer to 68 degres
 

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One of my professors in university used to say (quoting one of HIS professors), "You can develop film in most anything, including Scotch, but it's a dreadful waste of good Scotch!"
 

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Now some damn person is going to take offense that I just flush mine down the toilet with no environmental pre-treatment.

Uggg,

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Now some damn person is going to take offense that I just flush mine down the toilet with no environmental pre-treatment.

Uggg,

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I believe my body when it tells me that anything that comes out of that end is meant to keep on going, not to return any time soon. One can argue that there is a pretty good probability that at least one of the molecules of my body was once part of a stone-age man's urine. Sterility is not a guarantee of potability, nor is the opposite a necessary prohibition

There is a book, "Caveman Chemistry", that describes in entertaining manner many primitive processes . One of them uses urine in the formation of dye. I have a developer formula that I jokingly call Cat-P-Tea. It has catechol that we also find in urine and the Pyrocat series.
 

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So, would there be a difference between male and female urine for development?
I'd think male urine is better suited for 'stand' development :smile:

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I don't know about that. One young "lady" is said to have demonstrrated how she could fill a beer bottle without spilling a drop by letting it run down her leg and off her big toe. The "gentleman" who reported that was prone to whoppers.
 

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I am having visions of stacks of dimes and change on a metal plate... but well I didn't see that first hand either...
 

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The closest I have come is to be a little pissed when working in the darkroom.:D

Must be far more careful of making errors.
 

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I don't know about that. One young "lady" is said to have demonstrrated how she could fill a beer bottle without spilling a drop by letting it run down her leg and off her big toe. The "gentleman" who reported that was prone to whoppers.

I wouldn't drink champagne out of her shoe to celebrate after the demo.

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