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Fixer is a class of chemicals used in wet photography to reduce impermanent, light-sensitive silver ions to permanent metallic silver.
by aaronbrethorst 5y ago
Fixer is a class of chemicals used in wet photography to reduce impermanent, light-sensitive silver ions to permanent metallic silver.
- seszett 5y agoThat is actually done by the developer. The fixer washes away the remaining unexposed silver ions that were not reduced to metallic silver by the developer.
- aaronbrethorst 5y agoAh, so it does. The fixer stabilises the image, removing the unexposed silver halide remaining on the photographic film or photographic paper, leaving behind the reduced metallic silver that forms the image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_fixer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_fixer