sales de plata no quemadas

English translation: un(der)exposed silver salts/halides

21:09 Feb 20, 2017
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Photography/Imaging (& Graphic Arts)
Spanish term or phrase: sales de plata no quemadas
A text comparing photography and sculpture:

Inmovilidad y silencio también fueron siempre las características de la escultura. A pesar de que se trata de un medio más frecuentemente asociado con la pintura, la fotografía y la escultura comparten procedimientos en sus formas de producir y representar. Mientras una esculpe en el tiempo, la otra retrata el espacio, sus volúmenes, sus formas. Ambas podrían pensarse como procedimientos extractivos: el cincel iba sacando partes del bloque de piedra mientras el revelado fotográfico retiraba las sales de plata no quemadas por el efecto de la luz.

I am not seeing anything for "unburned" or "uncharred" silver halide...any ideas?

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Wendy Gosselin
Argentina
Local time: 22:58
English translation:un(der)exposed silver salts/halides
Explanation:
It refers to the areas of the film emulsion, which contains silver halides (salts), that have not been exposed to light light intensities sufficient to cause chemical de/re-composition.

Thinking laterally (Edward de Bono et al.) "sunburn" leads to a darkening (reddening) of the human skin (if not something worse...).
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Jennifer Levey
Chile
Local time: 21:58
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4 +1un(der)exposed silver salts/halides
Jennifer Levey
2 +1undarkened silver salts
Marie Wilson
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Helena Chavarria

  

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undarkened silver salts


Explanation:
I think the work you are looking for is "undarkened".
"Many people were thinking about this problem, however. Some chemists had noticed that sunlight cased certain mixtures of silver nitrates to darken. By the early nineteenth century, inventors were trying to combine the camera with these chemical discoveries. The main problems included exposure times as long as eight hours, and how to make photographic images permanent. If light created photographic images, how could they be kept from further darkening once they were finished? This problem was eventually solved by using hyposulfite of soda (now called sodium thiosulfite) to remove the undarkened silver particles."
http://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-t...

BBC Bitesize - GCSE Chemistry - Changing rates - Revision 4
www.bbc.co.uk › Bitesize › GCSE › Science › Chemistry › Chemical reactions and tests
Photography. One example of a photochemical reaction is the use of silver halide salts (eg silver chloride) in black and white photography. Silver chloride is ..

The Rutherfurd Photographs
adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1900PA......8..129H
by FE Harpham - ‎1900
Photography claims the respectable age of twenty decades, though ... a solvent for the salts of silver on the undarkened portion of their plates which would at the .... One of the three legs of the machine has been removed, allowing the frame to ...

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Word not work in my first sentence.

Marie Wilson
Spain
Local time: 03:58
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Helena Chavarria: I really don't know whether or not your suggestion is right but while I was preparing the references I've posted below, I did come across words like 'dark', 'darkened' and 'undarkened'.
6 mins
  -> Thanks Helena, I'm no expert, hence the 2, but, according to searches, darkening is the word that's used.
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un(der)exposed silver salts/halides


Explanation:
It refers to the areas of the film emulsion, which contains silver halides (salts), that have not been exposed to light light intensities sufficient to cause chemical de/re-composition.

Thinking laterally (Edward de Bono et al.) "sunburn" leads to a darkening (reddening) of the human skin (if not something worse...).

Jennifer Levey
Chile
Local time: 21:58
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 36
Grading comment
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Sergio Kot: Unexposed
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Reference information:
If finely spread this silver will show up as a dark patch. If no light falls onto the silver bromide it will not decompose. In photography, the undecomposed silver halide is removed by reacting it with a sodium thiosulfate solution to dissolve the unreacted silver halide and so stop further blackening of the paper.

http://www.taylorscience.com.au/chem11/Chemistry_11/Chemistr...

Undecomposed or not blackened?

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Photography remains an application, although this has been largely superseded by digital photography. Silver halides are sensitive to light, which causes them to decompose and form minute nuclei of silver metal, which are grown using an appropriate reductant. The undecomposed halogenide is then removed by means of a fixing agent.

http://www.umicore.com/en/about/elements/silver/

Helena Chavarria
Spain
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PRO pts in category: 16
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