PHOTOGRAPHIC EMULSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does photographic emulsion mean? 

• PHOTOGRAPHIC EMULSION (noun)
  The noun PHOTOGRAPHIC EMULSION has 1 sense:

1. a light-sensitive coating on paper or film; consists of fine grains of silver bromide suspended in a gelatin

  Familiarity information: PHOTOGRAPHIC EMULSION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHOTOGRAPHIC EMULSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A light-sensitive coating on paper or film; consists of fine grains of silver bromide suspended in a gelatin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

emulsion; photographic emulsion

Hypernyms ("photographic emulsion" is a kind of...):

coat; coating (a thin layer covering something)

Meronyms (substance of "photographic emulsion"):

silver nitrate (a nitrate used in making photographic emulsions; also used in medicine as a cautery and as a topical antibacterial agent)

silver bromide (a bromide that darkens when exposed to light; used in making photographic emulsions)

 Context examples 

Autoradiographic analysis performed by mounting the object for microscopy (e.g., on a glass slide) and bathing the object with a photographic emulsion that will record radioactive disintegrations occurring at close proximity.

(Microscopic Autoradiography, NCI Thesaurus)