[pure-silver] Re: sodium thiosulfate

Eric  This is usually out of my league, but I do have a possibility.  What has 
the humidity been recently were it was stored???  If I had to make a guess I 
would suspect that it absorbed the moisture out of the air causing it to cake 
up and harden.

Others probably have a better guess.


--- On Wed, 11/26/08, Eric Nelson <emanmb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Eric Nelson <emanmb@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [pure-silver] sodium thiosulfate
> To: "pure silver" <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2008, 8:10 PM
> I had some dry sodium thiosulfate in a brown gallon jug.  It
> solidified to the point that I couldn't break it up no
> matter how violently I shook the bottle so I cut off the top
> of the bottle to get to the chemical and used a mortar and
> pestle to break up what I needed at the time.
> 
> The rest I just covered with some saran wrap some months
> back.
> 
> Now it is no longer crystallized and just solid white
> chunks that will break up fairly easily.  I'm wondering
> if this is any good?  I mixed some and it is still an
> endotherm so that capacity is still there, but wondering if
> it will still "act" like ST.  Using this to make
> farmers reducer.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Eric


      
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