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What is the chemistry of film photography?
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:55:28
Publish Date: 2025-07-10 15:31:51
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Remember film photography? Some of you do and some of you have never interacted with a film camera. What is film? How does it recreate an image? Is it chemistry? Yes!

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References from this episode:

  1. https://pubs-acs-org.libproxy.library.unt.edu/doi/epdf/10.1021/ed052p622?ref=article_openPDF
  2. https://pubs-acs-org.libproxy.library.unt.edu/doi/10.1021/acs.jchemed.6b00400
  3. https://pubs-acs-org.libproxy.library.unt.edu/doi/10.1021/ed081p694
  4. https://edu.rsc.org/experiments/making-a-photographic-print-using-silver-chloride/454.article
  5. https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/education/resources/highschool/chemmatters/articlesbytopic/metals%20and%20nonmetals/chemmatters-feb2006-digital-photo.pdf
  6. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rolf-Steiger/publication/279964154_CHEMICAL_SENSITIZATION_OF_SILVER_BROMIDE/links/5a7d8b55aca272341aef2f6f/CHEMICAL-SENSITIZATION-OF-SILVER-BROMIDE.pdf
  7. https://www.acs.org/education/celebrating-chemistry-editions/2024-ncw/chemistry-of-polaroids.html
  8. https://cen.acs.org/articles/87/i12/Instant-Film.html
  9. https://www.acs.org/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/land-instant-photography.html
  10. https://pubs-acs-org.libproxy.library.unt.edu/doi/epdf/10.1021/ed051p72?ref=article_openPDF

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