> andy, that's rediculous, all you have to do is test it to find out for
> yourself:
> scrape a small piece of copper down to bright metal with sandpaper and
> immerse the copper in used fixer... silver will begin to plate in less than
> a minute... now try it with developer!
> can you locate these articles for us?
> jim
That's not a test for silver content, just a test to see if silver will
plate out under those chemical conditions. Developers with high
sodium sulfite concentrations are supposed to dissolve some of the silver
grains.
Received on Tue Feb 12 09:00:48 2002
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