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Photographic materials that have been printed-out or developed to create a visible image are susceptible to continued reduction of silver unless the unexposed silver halides are completely removed. This clearing process is called fixing. Without fixing, all silver-based photographic materials would eventually darken. The first recorded attempts to fix a photographic image were by Hercules Florence in 1833. According to his journals, Florence kept his printed-out silver chloride images on paper from fading by treating them in a solution of urine, ammonia being the active ingredient. His research, conducted in Brazil, went unnoticed.
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Photographic materials that have been printed-out or developed to create a visible image are susceptible to continued reduction of silver unless the unexposed silver halides are completely removed. This clearing process is called fixing. Without fixing, all silver-based photographic materials would eventually darken. The first recorded attempts to fix a photographic image were by Hercules Florence in 1833. According to his journals, Florence kept his printed-out silver chloride images on paper from fading by treating them in a solution of urine, ammonia being the active ingredient. His research, conducted in Brazil, went unnoticed.
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The pyrocatechol in urine works as a developer rather than a fixer.
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/172/8/1002
Never heard of using onions but I have done coffee with washing soda and I have heard of rosemary extract being used rosemaric acid and caffeic acid are very closely related believe it or not. Orange juice can work too.
http://www.digitaltruth.com/data/caffenol.php
For a simple developer, you need an acid which is then buffered to be alkaline.
Not sure about a home made fixer though other than hypochlorite for swimming pool and aquarium use.
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You're taking the pi*s right?
lol @ u, just noticed that
come on someone must know a good way to fix that doesn't involve cyanide. This is a key part of my plan to take a lecia a case of fp4 and hp5 a black bag and a patterson tank round the world