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The Art and Practice of Silver Printing

H. P. Robinson and Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney

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The Art and Practice of Silver Printing

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est character, is not to be excelled, though the addition of some soluble salts may be advantageous, particularly in dry climates or in very dry weather. Such salts are found in sodium nitrate, or ammonium nitrate, as much as equal weights of either of these substances being added. Thus our formula would stand as follows were these additions made:—

Original Solution.
1.—Silver nitrate50grains
Water1ounce
Modified Solution.
18 2.—Silver nitrate50grains
Ammonium nitrate or sodium nitrate50"
Water1ounce

The reason of the addition of the ammonium or sodium nitrate is that prints are better obtained on paper which is not absolutely free from water. When very dry, the liberated chlorine (see page 32) is apt to attack the albuminate, whereas it is deprived of much of its activity when it is able to be absorbed by water, which, in the presence of light, is decomposed into hydrochloric acid and oxygen.[10]

Hydrochloric acid can attack the silver nitrate present in the pores of th

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