RE: Hazards of wet plate collodion ?

Ha. When I buy a liter or ether I'm lucky if when I get it back to my studio
that I still have half a can--evaporation :-0 The idea that you would have
either to dispose of blows my mind.

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Small [mailto:toxwander2002@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 11:01 AM
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: Re: Hazards of wet plate collodion ?

<snip>
> I understand the wet plate method uses ether. I am a
> bit more familiar
> with ether than cyanide as I have used ether in
> industrial applications
> but ether has two un-nice characteristics - its
> flammability (explosive
> vapours) and its anesthetic nature.
<snip>
> Dianne
>
A variant on flammability - formation of unstable
explosive peroxides in storage. Think of it as "going
bad" and turning into an explosive. I don't know that
the current guidelines are; I do recall my college
disposing of ether after either 6 or 12 months as a
safety precaution.

$.02,

Tox
Received on Mon Aug 8 20:50:24 2005