Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The trade-name of a solution of potassium persulphate used by photographers to remove from their prints the last traces of sodium thiosulphate employed in washing.

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Examples

  • Sthelany formulated a series of fumes, somehow suggesting a walk over the hills - soil and sunlit vegetation, water and wet rocks, the perfume of anthion and wood violet, mold, rotten wood, and camphor.

    Marune: Alastor 933 Vance, Jack 1975

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