Fluorotype, a photographic process in which salts of fluoric acid were employed for the purpose of producing images in the camera; but, as the impression was not very strong, the plate had to be afterwards steeped in a weak solution of protosulphate of iron. The process was first suggested by Robert Hunt in 1844.
Fluorotype
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 697
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