Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or containing silver.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing silver in chemical combination. See
argentous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, silver; -- said of certain compounds of silver in which this metal has its lowest proportion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to or containing
silver . - adjective chemistry Of certain
compounds , containing silver in a lower proportion than in argentous compounds.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to compounds in which silver is bivalent
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Examples
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On adding potassium chloride to a boiling solution of argentic fulminate, as long as a precipitate of argentic chloride forms, there is obtained on evaporation brilliant white plates, of a very explosive nature, of potassic argentic fulminate, C (NO_ {2}) KAg.
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CN, from whose aqueous solution nitric acid precipitates a white powder of hydric argentic fulminate,
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I here show you the picture referred to, a 12 by 10 enlargement on artist's canvas, and may here state, in short, that my whole experience of argentic enlargements leads me to the conclusion that, setting aside every other quality, they are the most permanent pictures that have ever been produced.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 Various
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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.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 Various
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I have already spoken of the great ease and facility with which an argentic enlargement may be made as compared with a collodion transfer, for instance; but there is another and more important point to be considered between the two, and that is, their durability and permanence.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 Various
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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.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 Various
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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 volume is exactly equal to a volume of the latter.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 Various
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The facility with which it reduces alkaline cupric, argentic, bismuthous, ferric, mercuric salts, indigo and potassic picrate and chromate solutions has been utilized for the preparation of several ready methods for its determination.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 Various
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The whole process depends on the fact that argentic urate fails to dissolve in ammonia, but is soluble in nitric acid, and is thus easily obtained in the pure state.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 Various
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How now stands the case with an argentic enlargement?
Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 Various
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