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Re: Selenium
Rod Fleming wrote:
>Hi Sandy
>
>If you are going to go to the length of making up toner, perhaps a safer
>route might be to make up Gold Chloride toner. All the chems are available
>and given the very toxic nature of selenium (especially in powder form) this
>might be a Good Idea. All the sources I have read on toning salt prints
>recommend gold toning rather than selenium anyway.
Rod,
Yes, I am sure gold toning (or platinum) is the way to go with salted
paper, and I bought some gold choloride to mix a gold toner. However, gold
toner is rather expensive as you know and I don't really have the salted
paper technique down well enough to want to waste gold toner on the prints
I am currently making!.
However, selenium appears to be a lot more toxic than I had imagined so I
don't think I will be going there either!
Sandy King
BTW, Argyrotype