Fired Silver Paint: Silver Oxide and Flux in Purified Dextrin and Water (Gray, Erie Resistor 1954, Ex. 3)

A paint for putting silver electrodes on ceramic, glass or mica. Silver oxide and a little ceramic flux are held in purified dextrin dissolved in water. The wet paint conducts electricity, so a capacitor can be measured while it is being painted. On firing, the silver oxide turns into a silver film held on by the flux. Dextrin needs no alcohol against foam, and silver nitrate does not attack it while the paint is in use. Source: Robert B. Gray, US 2,695,275 (Erie Resistor, 1954), Example 3. Unknown: how the dextrin is purified. Gray does not give it. Also not given: which flux, and the firing heat. Bismuth subnitrate, one of the fluxes Gray names, is ours. Picture drawn by Youblob.