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y applied, and the colors are varied at will. En-am′eled Photo-graph. （Photography.) Metal or pottery is used for the ground; the image is developed by nitrate of silver until the half-tints are overdone or obscured, and the deep shades are covered with a thick deposit. The heat of the muffle drives off the organic matters which formed but vehicles, and the fire cleans the image and restores the brilliancy and delicacy. A thin layer of flux fixes the image. See Comptes Rendus, June 11, 1855. Photographic News, Vol. XIV. p. 86. En-ameled ware. The enameling of hollowware is by a mixture of powdered glass, borax, and carbonate of soda, mixed, fused, cooled, and ground. The ware is cleansed with acid, wetted with gumwater, the powder dusted on, and then fused by heat carefully applied. En-amel-ing. The art of applying vitrifiable colors to metal, pottery, or glass. The colors are prepared from the oxides of different metals, melted with a vitreous flux and lai