Snelling, Henry Hunt, 1816-1897 · [New York : W.B. Smith] · leaf 359
ssI do not lose a single detail in the positiveimpression, which is to be found in thenegative ; neither in the lights nor in theshades is anything solarized or lost, what-ever may be its contrast with the negative. As to the solidity and durability of theimpression, I consider it to be perfect… … CETATE or nitrate ofsilver is the most impor-tant and the best knownof all the salts of silver.It crystalizes in thin,square, colorless trans-parent flakes, anhydrousand unchangeable by the air. It issoluble in its own weight of water,and still more soluble in boilingwater ; alcohol when warm…
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