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2 unusual facts about Sodium thiosulfate


Sodium thiosulfate

This particular use can be set up to measure the oxygen content of water through a long series of reactions in the Winkler test for dissolved oxygen.

In this application to photographic processing, discovered by John Herschel and used for both film and photographic paper processing, the sodium thiosulfate is known as a photographic fixer, and is often referred to as hypo, from the original chemical name, hyposulphite of soda.



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