Thiotimolene as dev. agent

Roger Hicks

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Has anyone any experience of this? The (very scanty) literature on the resublimated form suggests a close chemical resemblance to known developing agents. The only reference I can provide is by author name only, Asimov, I., c. 1948.

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The resublimated form, you say? What exactly was wrong with the first sublimation? Not sublefremal enough for you I suppose? I don't know about its use as a developing agent, but I have used it for many micropsychiatric experiments on my friends.

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I think it was Isidore Assymtote that wrote it in the 60s.

He was a contemporary of Ferdinand Feghoot who wrote a series on time and space. Between them they originated the statement that "A nitch in time saves Stein" regarding the famous Stein murder case.

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It would be a very fast developing agent, and may actually develop the film before the developer is added to the film. A prewash would be mandatory.

The "thio" part of the name indicates a sulfur atom in the structure, which as we all know has lots of odd effects in developers.

Unfortunately, very little is known about dr. Izhak Azimov's photographic work.
 

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Ole, he was a Luddite. He would not fly at all and insisted on takeing the train everywhere he went in the US.

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Hmm. Haven't heard of the stuff since next week.

Helen, is it safe to be acquainted with you?
 

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You had to be careful to add the water to the thiotimoline rather than the other way around or the water could vanish. And, if the thiotimoline began dissolving, before you added water, and you changed your mind and didn't add the water, tachyons were generated causing a massive implosion.

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