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Rodinal ? Maybe?

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Rodinal formula via: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodinal

The original recipe was given by Agfa Rodinal for good reason over 50 years of secrecy. When in 1945 the Allies plundered the Agfa plant in Wolfen, they also fell into the hands of the recipe. The report of the Combined Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee, you can read it since then:

Water 75 ml
5.5 g of p-aminophenol
Potassium sicc. 4 g
4 g of potassium hydroxide
1 g of potassium bromide
Na4EDTA 2 g
Water to 100 ml
Today would be due to the better qualities rather free p-aminophenol hydrochloride and no use. The potassium hydroxide is dissolved at the first best in 4 ml of water and put it on then. Until now in an alkaline medium, is dissolved in it, the p-aminophenol.

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To discuss what one is doing rather than the artwork which results, to attempt to unravel the loops of creative activity, is, in many ways, a behavioral problem. The fusion of art, science and personality is involved. It leads to a consideration of our total relationship to a work of art, in which physical moves may lead to conceptual moves, in which Behavior relates to idea … “An organism is most efficient when it knows its own internal order.: — R. Ascott. 1964