单词 | collodion |
释义 | collodionn. a. A solution of gun-cotton in ether, forming a colourless gummy liquid, which dries rapidly in the air, owing to evaporation of the ether; used in photography for covering plates with a thin film, and in surgery for coating wounds, burns, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > ointments, etc. > [noun] > gluey solution used in surgery collodion1851 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > chemicals > [noun] > emulsion or sensitizer emulsion1840 collodion1851 sensitizer1854 nitrate bath1858 collodio-bromide1864 organifier1873 silver bath1878 bromide emulsion1885 silver1891 sensibilizer1900 panchromatic1906 nuclear emulsion1949 1851 F. S. Archer in Chemist 257 I find from numerous trials that Collodion..is admirably adapted for photographic purposes as a substitute for paper. 1861 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1859–61 7 15 Photographs of the moon..taken..on collodion. 1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) I. i. 35 An artificial covering of the flexible collodion is of great use. b. attributive, as collodion process (in photography), collodion balloon. ΚΠ 1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany 6 The wet collodion process. 1863–72 H. Watts Dict. Chem. I. 1084 Collodion balloons may be made much lighter than those of gold-beater's skin, so that much smaller ones will rise in the air when filled with detonating gas. 1879 G. B. Prescott Speaking Telephone (new ed.) 11 The smaller..end of the tube is closed by means of a collodion membrane. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1851 |
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