INDELIBLE INK
-Its main composition is silver nitrate... used as a stain during election to prevent electoral fraud...
Silver Nitrate, also known as argenti nitras or lapis infernularis, can also be used as an antiseptic but is caustic and irritating to the skin due to the highly ionized silver.
A drop of 1% solution is used as prophylaxis for gonorrhea ophthalmia neonatorum (Silver Nitrate Ophthalmic Solution, USP).
I've been stained with silver nitrate twice during our laboratory periods. And I must say that it's really hard to remove. The stain remained on my skin for about two weeks. The stain or the discoloration of the skin is due to the deposition of free silver.
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(source: ph ch 121 handout)
-Its main composition is silver nitrate... used as a stain during election to prevent electoral fraud...
Silver Nitrate, also known as argenti nitras or lapis infernularis, can also be used as an antiseptic but is caustic and irritating to the skin due to the highly ionized silver.
A drop of 1% solution is used as prophylaxis for gonorrhea ophthalmia neonatorum (Silver Nitrate Ophthalmic Solution, USP).
I've been stained with silver nitrate twice during our laboratory periods. And I must say that it's really hard to remove. The stain remained on my skin for about two weeks. The stain or the discoloration of the skin is due to the deposition of free silver.
=D
(source: ph ch 121 handout)