sanking
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Yes, I am aware of some chemicals in the things I eat. I drink a fair amount of wine so I see sodium sulfite a lot. And I also know about the carbonates and bicarbonates.
But exactly what is photo grade? Is there an ANSI standard that is followed by chemical manufacturers? Or is this something specific to a company like Kodak that establishes a company standard. I have seen labels such a "technical grade", "APS" grande and practical grade, but have no idea what standards are used. And I have even seen what is called a practical grade, which Steve Anchell wrote in one of his books is good for most photographic applications, and I definitely recall that Steve somewhere in one of his books suggested buying borax from the grocery store. I would wager that Steve makes a hell of a lot more money than Gainer from his advice since he sell a lot of books. Perhaps you fellows should be all over his ass about this as well since I would suspect that his impact on where people buy their chemicals is a lot greater than that of Gadget.
Sandy
But exactly what is photo grade? Is there an ANSI standard that is followed by chemical manufacturers? Or is this something specific to a company like Kodak that establishes a company standard. I have seen labels such a "technical grade", "APS" grande and practical grade, but have no idea what standards are used. And I have even seen what is called a practical grade, which Steve Anchell wrote in one of his books is good for most photographic applications, and I definitely recall that Steve somewhere in one of his books suggested buying borax from the grocery store. I would wager that Steve makes a hell of a lot more money than Gainer from his advice since he sell a lot of books. Perhaps you fellows should be all over his ass about this as well since I would suspect that his impact on where people buy their chemicals is a lot greater than that of Gadget.
Sandy
Sandy, every time you have a drink of wine, you probably have some food grade sodium sulifte. There are food grade carbonates and bicarbonates and these are not often checked for Calcium, but are checked for Arsenic, Lead and other ingredients such as other heavy metals. Photo grade might be checked for Iron and Cadmium as an example.
Patrick, Kodak sold Borax, Bromide and Carbonate and use them yet in their own chemicals within the plant. The prepared Kodak mixes use approved photograde. The Formulary Ammonium Thiosulfate is the same as what Kodak uses and many of their chemicals are of the highest purity. The drums are marked photograde.
In general, photo grade materials also include checks for insoluable matter, but food grade materials may not as long as the insoluables do not contain any of the harmful heavy metals and other items such as this.
Oh, and Patrick, if you want to get Kodak grade chemicals, try the Photographers Formulary.
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