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| | Photographic developer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In film developing, photographic developer (or just developer) is a chemical that makes the latent image on the film or print visible. |
 | | Some photographers add a pinch of sodium sulfite before dissolving the metol to prevent oxidation, but large amounts of sulfite in solution will prevent metol from dissolving. |
 | | In the early days of photography, a wide range of developing agents were used, including Chlorohydroquinone, ferrous oxalate, hydroxylamine, lactate of iron, ferrous citrate, Eikonogen, atchecin, resorcinol, antipyrin, acetanilid and Amidol (which unusually required midly acidic conditions). |
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