You're wasting your time! I hope this helps.
Ted
At 04:31 PM 11/22/99 -0500, Chuck Burkins wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>We use ammonaical silver staining of our gels, which uses 8g silver
>nitrate per liter of basic (ammonia and NaOH) solution. We generate
>liters of this waste, and we were wondering if anyone successfully
>reclaims the silver. I've checked with several waste metal reclaimation
>companies that handle photographic waste, but they tell me that it's not
>worth their (or my) while to recover the silver. Can anyone point me in
>the direction of a company that'll handle this sort of reclaimation? Or
>can anyone tell me that I'm wasting my time?
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>Charles Burkins
>burk@pobox.com
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