Silver salts
The compounds of silver.
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Silver salts have antiseptic properties. Until the development and widespread adoption of antibiotics, AgNO3 used to be dropped into newborn babies' eyes at birth to prevent contraction of gonorrhoea from the mother.
Silver salts - compounds of silver.
Simultaneous contrast - effect that adjacent color hues have upon each other.
A C-print is a negative-type color photographic paper which has at least three emulsion layers of light-sensitive silver salts used to produce the photographic image when the appropriate chemicals are applied.
The light-sensitive substances used in photographic film to record an image are silver salts and are called silver halides.
In 1880, George developed and patented the "dry plate", which used a glass negative like his predecessor, but he mixed silver salts with gelatin instead of eggwhite, which meant that the plates could be dried.
Basically, suspension of light-sensitive silver salts in gelatine. The light-sensitive layer of film or paper.
Fixer - chemical solution used to remove unexposed silver salts from developed negatives and prints
Wetting - agent chemical solution which reduces surface tension of water ...
Developing Negatives
Today's film is either polyester or cellulose acetate covered in silver salts and gelatin. When the film is exposed to light, it records an image. For that image to be usable, the film must be developed in chemicals.
Micro-thin layers of gelatin on film in which light-sensitive ingredients are suspended; triggered by light to create a chemical reaction resulting in a photographic image. Basically, suspension of light-sensitive silver salts in gelatin.
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