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Sulphurate   Listen
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Sulphurate  v. t.  (past & past part. sulphurated; pres. part. sulphurating)  (Chem.) To sulphurize. (Archaic)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... the silver and the power acting upon it. Pure atmosphere does not act upon silver; but we do not have this about in our operating rooms, as it is more or less charged with sulphurated hydrogen, which soon tarnishes the surface of the plate with a film of brown sulphurate. It is this that sometimes causes the specks which appear on finishing the impression, and are a great annoyance. Hence we see that the plate should be buffed just before receiving the vapor of iodine. Mr Hunt gives his opinion ...
— American Handbook of the Daguerrotype • Samuel D. Humphrey



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