摘要:
The invention provides a process for the recovery of transition and post-transition metals the halides and pseudohalides of which are hyperlinearly soluble in excess halide or pseudohalide, and especially of silver as halide or pseudohalide from waste photographic paper, photographic film, and other sensitized materials. The process comprises washing the material, removing wash, bringing the silver present to a form solubilizable in concentrated halide or pseudohalide solution, by oxidation if necessary, dissolving the silver salt or salts by means of a concentrated reagent solution of the halide or pseudohalide of an alkali or alkaline-earth metal, or ammonium, separating said complex solution from solid matter, washing the solid in turn with a dilute solution of the halide or pseudohalide and then with water, treating said separated complex solution with said dilute halide or pseudohalide wash and water-wash combined to form a precipitate and separating the precipitate of said silver halide or pseudohalide, reconcentrating dilute reagent, separating unwanted, accumulated salts from reagent and purifying silver salt.
摘要:
Scrap photographic film comprising at least a four component system involving a polyalkyleneterephthalate film base, an adhesive or subbing layer utilizing a terpolymer consisting chiefly of polyvinylidenechloride and a gelatin layer containing metallic silver or a compound thereof and a variety of contaminants such as causal dirt, dyes and the like is broken down for recovery of the valuable constituents therein including the silver, the polyvinylidenechloride terpolymer, and the polyesters by treating the chopped photographic film at an elevated temperature with a solvent for both the polyester and polyvinylidenechloride values in which solvent both the gelatin and silver values are insoluble, under conditions chosen to insure the quantitative recovery of the silver values.