- a variation of hyposulfite.
hyposulphite
Britishnoun
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Often shortened to: hypo. another name for sodium thiosulphate, esp when used as a photographic fixer
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another name for dithionite
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M. A. Always use your hyposulphite of soda saturated; it does not reduce the tone of pictures near so much as when it is used dilute.
From Notes and Queries, Number 211, November 12, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
Various patterns could be printed with the bichromate on a ground previously treated with hyposulphite.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
These masks have an absorbent composed of hyposulphite of sodium or of 72 per cent of the nitrous thiosulphate and 28 per cent of bicarbonate of soda.
From Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss
The solution in hydrochloric acid is nearly neutralised and then boiled with sodium hyposulphite.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
More commonly the salt is called sodium hyposulphite, or merely "hypo."
From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by William McPherson
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