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PHOTOGRAPHIC EMULSION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A light-sensitive coating on paper or film; consists of fine grains of silver bromide suspended in a gelatin
Synonyms:
emulsion; photographic emulsion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("photographic emulsion" is a kind of...):
coat; coating (a thin layer covering something)
Meronyms (substance of "photographic emulsion"):
silver nitrate (a nitrate used in making photographic emulsions; also used in medicine as a cautery and as a topical antibacterial agent)
silver bromide (a bromide that darkens when exposed to light; used in making photographic emulsions)
