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." ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.