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Silver Bath

Make a solution in allowed to remain in water for at least half an the proportion of 60 grains nitrate of silver to hour previously to its being employed for 1 ounce water. Test the solution with litmus mounting. The more rapidly the pictures are paper, and if slightly alkaline, or neutral, add applied and pressed upon the collodion surnitric acid to produce a faint red reaction to face, the more beautiful will be the finished the paper. The best method is to add a few result. drops of chemically pure nitric acid to an 3156, ounce of water, and add this solution to the With Fuchsine. A piece of linen goods Photographic Impressions silver bath a very few drops at a time. Then colored with fuchsine, and dried, was exposed coat a plate with collodion and let it remain to the light under a photographic negative, in the bath all night. The freshly made collodion can be used for this purpose, and thus both collodion and silver solution or bath be male ready for work at the same time. when the image of the plate became visible on the goods, the picture looking greyish and faded where the lights were strongest. Still the picture was rather weak, and the goods