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latent image
noun
, Photography.
- an invisible image, produced on a sensitized emulsion by exposure to light, that will emerge in development.
latent image
noun
- photog the invisible image produced by the action of light, etc, on silver halide crystals suspended in the emulsion of a photographic material. It becomes visible after development
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Light hits that silver to create a latent image, which emerges when it crystallized during the development process.
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It is the particular business of a chemical called “pyro” to release this latent image.
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The silver particles held this image, but not visibly—it is a latent image, and it is the purpose of development to bring it out.
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The latent image arising from X-rays is next in order of increasing stability.
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Dewar, Sir James, latent image formed at low temperatures, 202.
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The exposure is made and the latent image remains upon the sensitized plate, which is again used to photograph the sitter.
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