Static and potassium carbonate

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michaeleschuler@yahoo.com - 02 May 2005 17:00 GMT

I've started mixing my own developers and have been having trouble with
my potassium carbonate: specifically, when taking it out of the
(Photographer's Formulary) plastic bottle, some sort of static electric
charge is causing it to spray off the plastic spoon as it passes
through te mouth of the bottle. I've not noticed this with any other
chemicals - is this normal? Do I need to put it in a glass jar or use
a metal spoon? Attach a ground wire to the bottle?

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Jean-David Beyer - 02 May 2005 18:27 GMT

> I've started mixing my own developers and have been having trouble with
> my potassium carbonate: specifically, when taking it out of the
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> chemicals - is this normal? Do I need to put it in a glass jar or use
> a metal spoon? Attach a ground wire to the bottle?

Is it a powder and not just fine granules? You probably want fine granules.
You might try transferring it to a glass bottle, it might help. I doubt
grounding a metal spoon would help, but using a metal spoon might help -- it
would be grounded enough through you.

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