Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] EDTA/XTOL
From: John Brownlow <deadman@jukebox.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 21:51:54 +0100

on 28/3/00 9:31 pm, Mark Rabiner at mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com wrote:

> Johnny Deadman wrote:
>> 
>> on 28/3/00 3:50 pm, LP6@aol.com at LP6@aol.com wrote:
>> 
>>> Re:  Chemistries & EDTA Thread Has Caught my Interest:
>>> 
>>> EDTA:  Ethylene Diamino Triacetic Acid
>>> 
>>> Interests me in view of its "alternative medicine" application (thirty +
>>> years now)  to alleviate clogged arteries via the mechanism of chelating
>>> (pulling, clawing) out bivalent calcium from plaque and thereby loosening
>>> and
>>> dissolving plaque.
>> 
>> Since Xtol contains EDTA as well as  Vitamin C, shouldn't we be drinking it
>> instead of developing in it?
>> 
>> --
>> Johnny Deadman
> I think last week on Rec.photo.darkroom the eminent Richard Knoppow was saying
> that EDTA is the difference between D76 and Microphen.

Richard is great but the difference between D76 and Microphen is
Phenidone!!!!! EDTA just grabs salts out of the water.

- -- 
John Brownlow

http://www.pinkheadedbug.com