The inventor Momme Andresen was employed at Agfa as dye chemist. There he introduced photographic products and later made Agfa install an own department for photographic products.
A department that by time would dominate the company and made it go on until today.
The only formula that can definitely be accredited to Agfa is the formula confiscated by the Americans from the Agfa Wolfen plant after WWII as war reparations.
Distilled water ………………………………………………………………… 340 l
Paraminophenol …………………………………………………………………… 34 kg
Potassium sulfite, 30% w/w at 55°C ……………… 558 kg
Potassium hydroxide, 34% w/w………………………………… 50 kg
Potassium bromide* ………………………………………………………… 5.52 kg
Agfa P.1347 antifoggant …………………………………………… 42 g
No one seems to know what the chemical name was for the antifoggant was.
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