>Actually, for all I know, there may have been a "Victor's Mercury
>Intensifier," it's just that I never encountered a packaged version
>similar to the chrome one. I'd sort of be shocked though, because even
>back in those carefree days, the danger of mercuric chloride was pretty
>widely accepted.
I believe we are talking about Monkhaven's Intensifier which precipitated
mercuric chloride with potassium cyanide. How's that for a dry Martini?
Dick S.
Bostick & Sullivan
Platinum and Palladium
Photographic Chemistry
Santa Fe, New mexico