[pure-silver] Re: Where's the Silver?

  • From: Ryuji Suzuki <rs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, jim@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 23:35:07 -0400 (EDT)

From: Jim Brick <jim@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Where's the Silver?
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 20:20:08 -0700

> Dab, are you serious?

Can I borrow your line?

> If you are, and in the crudest lay terms, in a couple of sentences, it's in 
> the film as a silver halide molecule. It loses an electron when struck by a 

loses --> gains

> photon. The silver ion, Ag- gets an electron during development and it 

Ag- --> Ag+

> becomes real silver. Those Ag halide molecules not hit, get flushed via the 
> fixer which is why you can plate the silver out of fixer.

--
Ryuji Suzuki
"Keep a good head and always carry a light camera."
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