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by parshimers 2170 days ago
Yes, but once it becomes laden with powdered, precipitated silver it is far less benign. Silver is still a heavy metal after all, even if it is not the most acutely dangerous one.
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The problem then is the dissolved silver, not the thiosulphate.
And just evaporating it down should be a suitable concentration step, if not just electroplating the silver out of solution with a graphite anode or something like that.