Bob
4th September 2009, 05:15 PM
So... I decide to tidy up the darkroom and as part of that I start to list all the chemicals I have in the "do not open this box" box.
One such turns out to be the eponymous succinic acid. I have no idea why I bought this. A quick google suggests that it is used in the "Ferrotype process" but as I have none of the other ingredients listed - sodium chloride, silver nitrate and the interestingly named "mucilage of gum arabic" - I doubt that was my intention. But it might have been - perhaps I ran out of mucilage (a dry throat possibly).
Anyone know of any other reason I might have bought succinic acid?
Cheers, Bob.
One such turns out to be the eponymous succinic acid. I have no idea why I bought this. A quick google suggests that it is used in the "Ferrotype process" but as I have none of the other ingredients listed - sodium chloride, silver nitrate and the interestingly named "mucilage of gum arabic" - I doubt that was my intention. But it might have been - perhaps I ran out of mucilage (a dry throat possibly).
Anyone know of any other reason I might have bought succinic acid?
Cheers, Bob.