As soon as you stir in the sulfite, you will see the same sort of precipitate that you see when mixing Formulary Rodinal. |
What you are describing sounds suspiciously like a reaction to the preservative sulfite. |
But the sulfite liquors of the paper mills are being worked up successfully into industrial alcohol. |
Smoking an empty bottle with a sulfur candle to sterilize it requires them to list sodium sulfite on the label. |
The Lootens formula keeps sulfite content low, uses very little bromide, and adds small amounts of citric acid and potassium thiocyanate. |
More than a mere trace of the precipitate proves that some sulfite was used to preserve the meat. |