carbon tissue

British  

noun

1. Also called: carbon paper.  a sheet of paper coated with pigmented gelatine, used in the carbon process

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Example Sentences

The addition of ammonia and alcohol to the sensitizing solution makes it easier to strip the paper from the copper plate, after the carbon tissue is mounted on the plate, and enables one to develop the resist in the water at a lower temperature than without it, thus avoiding pits in the darker portions and white specks or bubbles in the lights, should the water reach too high a temperature.

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There is a "special" carbon tissue, price $4.00 per roll of 2 × 12 feet, made by the Autotype Company, of London, England, with full instructions appended; by a system of double transfer, reversed negatives may be obtained with this tissue.

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The following instructions for making carbon transparencies will no doubt be found useful: The carbon tissue prepared for this process consists of paper coated with gelatine containing carbon, lamp-black, or other pigments.

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A very suitable instrument for timing the exposure of carbon tissue is Sawyer's actinometer.

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With an instrument of this kind it is evident that, by exposing alongside the carbon tissue and determining the number of tints required for the proper exposure of that negative, the same number of tints with the same negative will always prove right.

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