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adj. - Relating to compounds in which silver is bivalent.

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Usage examples (13)
  • How now stands the case with an argentic enlargement?
  • Of course it may be said that there is scarcely time yet to make a fair comparison -- that the argentic enlargements are still only on their trial.
  • My experiments were successful, and we now prepare an enamel argentic paper on which the prints stand out with brilliancy equal to those on albumenized paper.
  • Dissolve about 8 grammes of ammonic thiocyanate (sulphocyanide) crystals in a liter of water, and adjust to decinormal argentic nitrate solution, by diluting till one...
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