Developer

From CAMEO
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Description

A chemical used in photography to change a latent image into a visible image by reducing the light-exposed, silver halide particles to metallic silver. Common developing agents are Hydroquinone, Pyrogallic acid, and p-phenylenediamine.

Resources and Citations

  • Richard S. Lewis, Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 10th ed., 1993
  • Random House, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997
  • The American Heritage Dictionary or Encarta, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Corp., 1998

Retrieved from "https://cameo.mfa.org/index.php?title=Developer&oldid=89772"