Sodium silver thiosulfate

Many photographers who develop their own pictures pour spent solutions down the drain. Toxic chemicals released this way include acetic acid, aminophenol, ammonium hydroxide, diethanolamine, silver, sodium thiosulfate, and more than 80 others. I38,39 ... 

Silver chloride Aqueous ammonia or sodium thiosulfate. 

Uses. The principal use for sodium thiosulfate continues to be as fixative in photography (qv) to dissolve undeveloped silver haUde from negatives or prints. In appHcations where rapid processing is requited, such as the processing of x-ray film, sodium thiosulfate has been largely replaced by ammonium thiosulfate. 

The principal use of photochemical-grade ammonium thiosulfate continues to be in photography, where is dissolves undeveloped silver haUdes from negatives and prints. It reacts considerably faster than sodium thiosulfate, and the fixing solutions can be used about twice as long as sodium thiosulfate solutions the washing period to remove residual thiosulfate is shorter. 

Assay of hydrogen cyanide can be done by specific gravity or silver nitrate titration. Sulfur dioxide in hydrogen cyanide can be deterrnined by infrared analysis or by reaction of excess standard iodine solution and titration, using standard sodium thiosulfate or by measurement of total acidity by... 

Reaction of 2-pyrrolylbenzoic acid derivative 122 with PCI5 and subsequent reaction with diazomethane gave the diazoacetophenone 123 that upon treatment with silver oxide, sodium carbonate and sodium thiosulfate afforded acetic acid derivative 124, cyclization with acetic anhydride gave 125 (91JHC77) (Scheme 24). 

L.l Sodium thiosulfate, photographer s hypo, reacts with unexposed silver bromide in film emulsion ... 

Matthews and Riley [99] preconcentrated iodide by co-precipitation with chloride ions. This is achieved by adding 0.23 g silver nitrate per 500 ml of seawater sample. Treatment of the precipitate with aqueous bromine and ultrasonic agitation promote recovery of iodide as iodate which is caused to react with excess iodide under acid conditions, yielding I3. This is determined either spectrophotometrically or by photometric titration with sodium thiosulfate. Photometric titration gave a recovery of 99.0 0.4% and a coefficient of variation of 0.4% compared with 98.5 0.6% and 0.8%, respectively, for the spectrophotometric procedure. 

Russell A process for extracting silver from aigentite, Ag2S, using a solution of sodium thiosulfate and cupric sulfate. Invented by E. H. Russell in 1884, following his use of this solution to remove sodium sulfide from soda ash. 

Soliman and Belal investigated argentimetric (67,68) and mercurimetric (69) methods. Hydralazine precipitates silver from ammoniacal silver nitrate solution. The silver is dissolved with hot nitric acid and titrated with ammonium thiocyanate solution. Alternatively, mercury is precipitated from alkaline potassium mercuric iodide solution. The precipitated mercury is dissolved by adding excess standard iodine solution. The excess iodine is back-titrated with sodium thiosulfate solution after acidifying with acetic acid. 

Lithium carbonate, 0533 Lithium dithionite, 4687 Magnesium carbonate hydroxide, 0534 Magnesium nitrate, 4693 Magnesium nitrite, 4692 Magnesium sulfate, 4696 Potassium carbonate, 0531 Potassium nitrite, 4649 Silver hyponitrite, 0031 Sodium acetate, 0779 Sodium carbonate, 0552 Sodium disulfite, 4808 Sodium dithionite, 4807 Sodium hydrogen carbonate, 0390 Sodium hydrogen sulfate, 4446 Sodium metasilicate, 4805 Sodium nitrite, 4720 Sodium sulfate, 4806 Sodium tetraborate, 0185 Sodium thiosulfate, 4804... 

Silver halide salts are used in black and white photography. During the developing process, excess silver halide is removed from the film by using a solution of sodium thiosulfate (commonly called hypo ). 

Although silver is not treated by solvent extraction in any of the flow sheets, silver is recovered from aqueous solution in several other situations. For these processes, Cytec developed reagents with donor sulfur atoms to extract this soft element. For example, tri-isobutylphosphine sulfide (CYANEX 47IX) extracts silver from chloride, nitrate, or sulfate media selectively from copper, lead, and zinc [32]. The silver is recovered from the loaded organic phase by stripping with sodium thiosulfate, and the metal recovered by cementation or electrolysis. Silver can also be extracted from chloride solution by a dithiophosphinic acid (CYANEX 301) [33]. 

Several leaching processes are known. One such process, known as the Patera process, developed in the mid 19 century, involves roasting ore with sodium chloride foUowed by leaching with sodium thiosulfate solution. Silver... 

Sodium thiosulfate is a common analytical reagent used in iodometric titration to analyze chlorine, bromine, and sulfide. Other uses are in bleaching paper pulp, bleaching straw, ivory, and bones, for removing chlorine from solutions, silver extraction from its ores, a mordant in dyeing and printing textiles, and as an antidote to cyanide poisoning. 

SILVER TARNISHES WHEN IT IS EXPOSED TO SULFUR. PLACE A FEW CRYSTALS OF SODIUM THIOSULFATE ("HYPO"] ON A SILVER COIN. HEAT UNTIL HYPO MELTS. WASH. HYPO HAS LEFT STAIN OF BROWN-BLACK SILVER SULFIDE. 

How can one verify, just by looking at the Latimer diagram of silver, that sodium thiosulfate (hypo) is useful in photographic processes that require the removal of excess, wrested silver halide Is this process (fixing) actually a redox reaction Explain... 

To prevent the silver intensification from fading, fix the reaction product with 5% sodium thiosulfate for 5 min and wash with tap water... 

In practical systems, no solvent is as universally effective as sodium thiosulfate, Na2S203. Itis inexpensive, stable and produces few undesirable side effects such as stains, odors or toxicity. It rapidly forms stable, soluble complex ions with silver halide (for example [Ag(S203)2]3 ), which are rapidly diffusible. Several other silver complexing agents are proposed as being useful in diffusion transfer processes, however, and some of these are used either singly or in combination with other, more common solvents. Some are used with certain developers. 

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