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- From: jmb5b@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (John M. Bozeman)
- Subject: Re: The color developer in the E-6 process
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.035945.28335@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 03:59:45 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov23.181412.22577@pmafire.inel.gov> geoff@pmafire.inel.gov (Geoff Allen) writes:
- >| : > (There is no way I'm going back to a formaldehyde-rich stabilizer
- >| : > --- yeech!)
- >| :
- >| : The Beseler kit had a formaldehyde-based stabilizer---does
- >| : formaldehyde really have a stench? It may be just me, but I didn't
- >| : smell anything in particular. Or is the "yeech" for the toxicity?
- >|
- >| I was referring to the toxicity. As far as I know, it does not have
- >| a smell.
- >|
- >| Jay Ts
- >
- >
- >Didn't you guys ever take a biology class and have the joy of dissecting
- >a formaldehyde-saturated frog or worm or cow's eye or other type of
- >beastie?
- >
- >At least I *thought* the stench was from formaldehyde used to preserve
- >the little darlings....i
-
- Formaldehyde is toxic. It does have the nasty, medicinal smell. The
- stuff that frogs are in is probably a formalin (water + formaldehyde)
- mixture, or else isoproyl (sp?) alcohol.
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