Albumen paper


a printing paper coated with alb-men, salt, and citric acid and sensitized with silver nitrate, used c1850–80.

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    a flexible zinc or aluminum printing plate coated with a photosensitive compound, used in offset printing of usually fewer than 50,000 copies.

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    to treat with an alb-minous solution. verb (transitive) to coat with a solution containing alb-men or alb-min

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    (in textile printing) a color fixed to a fabric by an alb-minous mordant.

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