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photographic plate

NOUN
  1. a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded

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  • After they had died, any part of their carcasses would register on a photographic plate and tissue from the apices of their lungs and from the bronchia glowed with a light of its own. The Worlds Of Robert A Heinlein
  • The value of such a discovery was obvious from the first; and was still further enhanced by the discovery made shortly that, photographic plates are affected by the rays, thus making it possible to make permanent photographic records of pictures through what we know as opaque substances. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences
  • Such waves can hit a receiver, say a photographic plate, and produce an image of the celestial object.
  • The usual photographic plates, which have their principal sensibility in the violet parts of the spectrum, give us the _photographic_ magnitudes of the stars. Lectures on Stellar Statistics
  • In order to find a possible relation between transparency and thickness, I have made photographs in which portions of the photographic plate were covered with layers of tin-foil, varying in the number of sheets superposed.
  • In the case of radium, I want to know who had the skills to prepare radium sources, brush the mixture of alcohol and zinc sulfide from the small rectangular glasses used for scintillation counting, read the photographic plates of emulsions, set up apparatus for experimental work, analyze radium samples, define radium doses for medical use, and perform experiments. Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
  • Until instantaneous photography was introduced, a little more than twenty-five years ago (by the discovery of the means of increasing the sensitiveness of a photographic plate), and gradually became familiar to everyone in the exhibitions known as the "biograph" or More Science From an Easy Chair
  • Some of these were made not simply without lenses but without a camera at all - rather by the direct manipulation of photographic plates.
  • Although not trained in astronomy, she quickly showed a unique proficiency in analyzing photographic plates.
  • Other photographic plates and film, for colour photography ( polychrome ), in the flat, sensitised, unexposed.
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