Re: [ATM] Silvering Mirrors

["Thomas Janstrom" <thomas@moiler.com>]

Immersion in water will work, so long as the water hasn't been exposed to
gaseous sulphur dioxide (which is highly water soluble, but you already knew
that) so the water would have to be distilled and kept in a sealed vessel to
prevent SO2 contamination.

I use SO2 in a basic solution to artificially age silver work (not as fast
as liver of sulphur, but easier to get where I live), I don't know how it
would go if the solution was on the acidic side though.

Cheers, Thomas.

-----Original Message-----
From: atm-bounces@atmlist.net [mailto:atm-bounces@atmlist.net] On Behalf Of
Dominic-Luc Webb
Sent: Friday, 25 January 2008 9:27 PM
To: Marinus van der Lugt
Cc: ATM Superheros
Subject: Re: [ATM] Silvering Mirrors

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Marinus van der Lugt wrote:


I think the issue here is sulfur in the air concommitant with
oxidation. Scavangers were already mentioned, but I do wonder
about just storing such optics in water.

Dominic

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