Seaweed Developer

I don't think the intent was to produce the greatest bird movie ever or to run an proper research project:

Then what was the point?

Personally I think it's interesting that you can produce a developer from seaweed....

But not quite interesting enough to find out why.

Which is why our Sci-fi aspirations to explore the universe will come to nought and remain fiction; because we wasted our time and dwindling resources on lame 'community projects', instead of doing something more useful.

Edited August 15, 2020 by rodeo_joe|1

Personally, I've always liked the idea of developers using urine ("urinol", I guess).

 

Then I'd have more of an excuse for it when people say my images are P*SS poor.

After a bit of web research, it looks like the active reducing chemicals in seaweed might be substances called Phlorotannins.

See this link.

The simplest phlorotannin is 1,3,5-trihydroxybenzene.

 

1,2,3-trihydroxybenzene is one of the oldest known and isolated developing compounds. AKA pyro, pyrogallol or pyrogallic acid.

 

1,4-dihydroxybenzene is our old friend hydroquinone and 1,2-dihydroxybenzene is better known to us as pyrocatechol.

 

So it seems not unlikely that the phlorotannin trihidroxybenzene complexes found in abundance in bladderwrack are responsible for its developing ability.

A tip of the hat to rodeo_Joe from Alan Marcus --- most all developing agents are derivative of benzene. When benzene was first extracted from coal it was called coal oil and kerosene came from that. It was one of the first organic compounds made by man (not from extract of a plant or animal).

Thank you Alan - a compliment indeed coming from someone with your great experience and knowledge.