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

A drop of water on a dry plate is not flat but rounded.

From Common Science by Ritchie, John W. (John Woodside)

So a supersensitive dry plate will often record many thousand stars in a region where the naked eye can see but one.

From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by Todd, David Peck

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