Good Advice for the salt printer

pdeeh

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It is generally recommended when sensitising salted paper to do so with a 12% solution of Silver nitrate.

When performing the coating step, do Try to use the contents of the bottle labeled "Silver nitrate 12%" rather than the identical but unlabelled bottle that contains only distilled water.

Failing to follow this advice may result in rather low contrast prints ...

 

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Wow your water comes out of the tap already with silver in, Bert?
 

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pdeeh said:
Wow your water comes out of the tap already with silver in, Bert?
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Not yet, but they run tests now at drinking water intake points to see what kind of medicines and drugs are used and thus found in our open waters ....
 

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Hmm... I really don't think I would like to live anywhere that has 12% silver nitrate coming out of the tap water.
 
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