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Tmax & D-76
"Nicholas O. Lindan" wrote in message m... "Richard Knoppow" wrote The line about T-Max being as fine grained in Microdol-X as Technical Pan in Technidol is from me. HA! If I could get Google to search rec.photo.darkroom - I am sure I was pointing this out as early as ... * * * * Perceptol - from the MSDS information - doesn't really look a whole lot like Microdol-X Part A: Metol Part B S. Sulfite S. Bromide S. Tripolyphosphate (STPP) The STPP is a water softening agent in this application (among it's other uses it adds weight to seafood by making it retain water). I don't know if there is a dichroic fog inhibitor or if the bromide takes care of it. I guess P. Bromide could be a fine-grain agent, but I would wonder about its effect on shadow detail. The only film developer w/ bromide TIKO (WTEO Perceptol) is D-96, used by the motion picture industry. One rather whacked-out developer in the Microdol-X vein is Rollei RLS (LP Cube XS) that is made from Metol Ammonium Chloride without the s. sulfite (if the MSDS can be believed). -- Nicholas O. Lindan, Cleveland, Ohio Darkroom Automation: F-Stop Timers, Enlarging Meters http://www.darkroomautomation.com/da-main.htm n o lindan at ix dot netcom dot com Be careful! The MSDS you have for Perceptol is an old one and in error. I wrote them about the sodium bromide, its suppsed to be sodium chloride. Its possible that Microdol-X has ammonium chloride in it, I think the cation may not be important. But there are often several versions of MSDS around. Also, they don't show all the ingredients, only those deemed to be hazardous and sometimes not even those if present in very small quantity. For instance both T-Max and T-Max RS are Phenidone developers but no mention of it was made in their MSDS for years. Many packaged developers have some sort of sequestering agent or agents in them to control impurities in the water, mostly magnesium and calcium carbonates, the most common "hardness" in water and sometimes also trace metals like iron. I don't have an actual formula for Microdol/Perceptol but it appears to contain about 15 or 20 grams of sodium chloride per liter of working solution, otherwise similar to D-20. I am pretty sure the X in Microdol-X is a silver sequestering agent, perhaps a mercaptan, to prevent dichroic fog. I never had any problem with this from Perceptol so perhaps it too has some anti-silvering agent in it. Kodak has a ton of patents for anti-silvering agents, who knows which were actually used and where since they can also be added to emulsions. -- Richard Knoppow Los Angeles, CA, USA |
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