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Old 10th November 2010, 10:49 PM
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With selenium toner it is probably a good idea to wear gloves. No point in necessarily exposing yourself to a toxic substance especially when nitrile gloves offer no impediment to print handling.
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filter it, dilute 1+100 an use it as fertilizer in your flowerpots.
I did and the plants are looking good.

I do the more or less the same with spent fixer after silver recovery. Ammonium thiosulphate helps to fix nitrogen into the soil, dunno how selenium works.
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Old 11th November 2010, 07:58 AM
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I wouldn't put it on your veg though


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Old 11th November 2010, 08:07 AM
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I have been experimenting with the Kodak Rapid selenium toner and had the same thing on my mind about disposal.

I find that the ammonia smell goes away quite quickly but the toner keeps on toning. Does the toner suffer from oxidation? I've been keeping it in the tray and only putting a larger tray over top of it?

Lastly; how toxic is it? do you all wear gloves ... or just put up with the slowly approaching dementia?
I guess the toner exhausts as the selenium leaves it by combining with the silver in the print. The health risks of selenium in this form are low so I guess it should be treated with the same respect we should afford all chemicals. I do not put my hands in it, primarily because I don't want toned finger nails.

As an after thought I believe my wife feeds me selenium tablets from the health food shop that are supposed to do something good, but I doubt that they do.
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SNIP;

As an after thought I believe my wife feeds me selenium tablets from the health food shop that are supposed to do something good, but I doubt that they do.
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Or perhaps make your humour blacker... or your moods darker...
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Good point.

Selenium is needed to make the thyroid work, there are a number of diseases related to lack of selenium, mainly because the soil lacks it and there is a deficit of it on the trophic chain, also there is selenium in some dandruff control shampoos, baby milks, etc.

Also a number of intoxications are well described.

Plants make good use of it, afaik (which isn't much) the main question is not to change the ph of your pots soil and not saturate it. In any case it's better end for it than the drain, imho.

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They will make you archival
Will that mean I'll burn with a brown flame?
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Or perhaps make your humour blacker... or your moods darker...
Impossible.
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You wont even need to burn. 500 years if kept in the right environment?
Darker moods maybe, but that'll make your lighter sides appear to be brighter. Of course it'll be seen as mood swings but we'll all know it's just your contrast.

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