Blisters or bubbles in home made paper emulsion

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Cor

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hi Lachlan,

Thanks for the write up, interesting, and also pointing out that my developing times are too long, thus far I processed as per factory silver gelatin paper, learned again !

best,

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Acidic stop bath and acidic fix. Could some thiosulphate be decomposing in the emulsion due to acidic conditions and releasing Sulphur Dioxide bubbles? Thiosulphate decomposition generally requires stronger acid but who knows.

Carbonate buffered developer hitting acid stop was a well known source of blistering on poorly hardened emulsions in the fairly distant past (70+ years ago) - Ron had talked about that on here with regard to stop baths etc.
 
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