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collodion Definition

col·lo·dion (kə lōdē ən)

noun

a highly flammable, colorless or pale-yellow, viscous solution of pyroxylin in a mixture of alcohol and ether: it dries quickly, forming a tough, elastic film, and is used as a protective coating for wounds, in cements, etc.

Etymology: < Gr kollōdēs, gluelike < kolla, glue + eidos, form

collodion Usage Examples

Preposition: as

  • binder: Exhibits created using this process Collodion A generic term for any process using collodion as a binder for the light-sensitive silver salts.

Converse of object

  • use: Exhibits created using this process Collodion A generic term for any process using collodion as a binder for the light-sensitive silver salts.
  • work: Mr Annan, who had worked wet collodion, showed some brilliant pictures - groups both of men and cattle.

Adjective modifier

  • wet: Scott Archer's wet collodion of 1851 process produced a negative by bringing out a latent image in a chemical developer.
  • strong: To resist, therefore, the rough usage the picture will have to undergo, it should be made with tolerably strong collodion.

Modifies a noun

  • plate: He used a miniature camera with wet collodion plates only 1 inch square.
  • negative: Dry collodion negatives, introduced later, were made by covering the collodion with a layer of albumen or gelatin.
  • process: Hill Norris patented his dry collodion process in September 1856.
  • positive: These shilling portraits were probably collodion positives or ambrotypes, but Robinson also offered ten carte-de-visite portraits for 10 shillings.
  • technique: Knowledge of the unpatented collodion technique quickly spread and photographers were poised at the edge of a new epoch.
  • glass: Consolidation and re-housing of Mammoth collodion glass plate negatives. [ Abstract ] .

Noun used with modifier

  • process: Exhibits created using this process Collodion A generic term for any process using collodion as a binder for the light-sensitive silver salts.
  • wet-plate: His own research was aided by France Scully Osterman and Mark Osterman, respected historians and modern masters of the wet-plate collodion process.

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