[Frameworks] storing chemistry

[Robert Schaller]

Hi Katherine!

It's certainly better if they don't freeze, to say the least!  I've never actually had film chemicals freeze, but I have noticed that solutions that are concentrated, like black and white reversal clearing bath, tend to fall out of solution when stored at 50°F, and that what falls out does not redissolve even on warming.  I would guess that freezing would cause all kinds of precipitation that would be hard to reverse, and that this would be trouble enough even aside from the possibility that freezing would harm any of the solutes themselves.

I think letting them freeze is a bad idea.  If you can bring them in, do!  A stable temperature is a good idea.

On Feb 10, 2016, at 3:45 PM, Katherine Bauer <kittylitterxox at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi Frameworks,
> I have an enclosed porch that I wanted to turn into a dark room, it is sort of insulated, but it is still cold, Im in upstate NY. I haven't put a thermometer out there, but we have some nights coming up that might be in the tens if not single digits coming up. What happens if chemicals freeze? Like, I have a liquid E6 kit and C14 kits etc.that I would like to keep on the porch. Can I store them out there, or is it better not to because temperatures at night can drop? Is it better if the temperature is more stable anyway? Like an inside closet? 
> Thanks! 
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