dry plate

American  

noun

1. a glass photographic plate coated with a sensitive emulsion of silver bromide and silver iodide in gelatin.

2. Metallurgy. tin plate having patches of dull finish.

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Etymology

Origin of dry plate

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

Oxymel produced a dry plate that could be kept for days.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2014

“You’ll have a new barn in no time,” I said, wiping an already dry plate with a towel.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

Plates are prepared for orthochromatic work as follows: Take any ordinary rapid dry plate, place it in a bath containing Distilled water 200 c.c.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 by Various

In ordinary wet or dry plate photography these effects would have been reversed, but by Dixon and Gray’s process the relative luminosities of these three colours were almost perfectly translated.

From The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years by Werge, John

The exposure is much longer than in ordinary dry plate work, generally lasting in the neighborhood of five minutes.

From The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing by Hitchcock, Frederick H.