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The Photographic art-journal (1851)

Snelling, Henry Hunt, 1816-1897 · [New York : W.B. Smith] · leaf 326

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erises and disorganizes animalmembranes when damp, which is thecause of its fatal action on the lungswhen respired. Chlorine is used in thedaguerrean art combined with gold,iodine and bromine ; in the first case towhiten or bleach the picture, and in thelatter as an accelerator. Liquid chlo-rine… … useli—so he chose to spellhis name, though hisfathers wrote it Fuessli—was born, by all accountssave his own, in the year1741, at Zurich; but ashe seldom wished to thinklike other men, so he refused to beborn according to tradition or re-gister books, and taking up a littleGerman memoir of himself,…

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