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That 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.
by seszett 5y ago
That 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