Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bill Satterfield wrote: > > Tina, the night before I mix anythig, I fill enough graduates with water, cover > them up and leave them in my air conditioned dark room overnight. The next day > the water is a cool 68-70 degrees > > Bill( I keep my darkroom cool) Satterfield ><Snip> The ruckus I created a week ago somewhere when I insisted "from long experience" that liquids in the darkroom will be two degree's cooler than the air. If my air thermometer is 71 my trays and even glass bottles of chemicals will pour out at 69. (degrees) Turns out though that there are certain basic thermodynamic concepts this goes up against. EXCEPT THAT IT IS TRUE. In every darkroom I've ever worked in and that's a lot!! First about five people say I'm an amazing idiot. Then another five or ten (real smart) people say I'm right or close to it! No metal trays by the way. I'd attribute it to evaporation and the air thermometer tends to be eye level while the liquids are kept in the cooler lower levels or on the very cool cement floor. Mark's law of thermodynamics: water is cold! Mark William Rabiner :)