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Collodion

noun

A colorless syrupy solution of pyroxylin in ether and alcohol; used as a coating for wounds or photographic films.

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Etymology of 'Collodion'

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"Collodion" Quotes from Famous Books

... edges, and must be of the class called rectilinear, i.e., giving straight lines. The picture is then accurately focused and brought to the required size. A plate is prepared in the dark room by the collodion process, which is then exposed in the camera for the proper time and developed in the ordinary way. After development, the plate is fixed and strongly intensified, in order to render the white portions of the drawings as opaque as possible. On looking through a properly treated negative ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 • Various

... small, and there is no discharge from it, it may be painted with collodion or covered with boric-acid ointment (sixty grains of boric acid to the ounce of vaseline) after the first day. If large, it should be covered with cotton gauze or cloth which have been boiled or specially prepared for surgical purposes. If pus ("matter") forms, ...

— The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) • Various

... back to find Mr. Wilde squatting on his high chair by the table. He had washed his face and changed his clothes. The great furrows which the cat's claws had ploughed up in his face he had filled with collodion, and a rag hid the wound in his throat. I told him I should kill the cat when I came across her, but he only shook his head and turned to the open ledger before him. He read name after name of the people who had come to him ...

— The King In Yellow • Robert W. Chambers

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