Stainless steel dipper in silver nitrate bath?

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I am going to build a tank for silver nitrate bath for wet plate collodion.

The tank is made of glass. For the dipper i have an idea of using 2mm stainless steel wire. Is stainless steel safe in silver nitrate or will it contaminate the bath?

For most commercial available tanks I have seen the dipper is made of plastic.
 

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I think 316 grade might work, this is what EK recommended. You will end up with stains everywhere 😊

Glass.
 
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