silver bromide

American  

noun

Chemistry.

1. a yellowish, water-insoluble powder, AgBr, which darkens on exposure to light, produced by the reaction of silver nitrate with a bromide: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions.

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silver bromide British  

noun

1. a yellowish insoluble powder that darkens when exposed to light: used in making photographic emulsions. Formula: AgBr

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Etymology

Origin of silver bromide

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

At one time, light-sensitive silver bromide was a component of photographic film.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

What additional information do we need to answer the following question: How is the equilibrium of solid silver bromide with a saturated solution of its ions affected when the temperature is raised?

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

Note the chloride ion concentration of the initial mixture was significantly greater than the bromide ion concentration, and so silver chloride precipitated first despite having a Ksp greater than that of silver bromide.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

As the chemicals go to work, one of them "develops" the latent image in the film, turning its silver bromide into metallic silver.

From Time Magazine Archive

One gram of a mixture of silver chloride and silver bromide is found to contain 0.6635 gram of silver.

From An Introductory Course of Quantitative Chemical Analysis With Explanatory Notes by Talbot, Henry P.