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Solarize

To injure by too long exposure to the light of the sun in the camera; to burn.

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Change 76% connected

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Develop 76% connected

To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

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Expose 76% connected

To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Insolate 92% connected

To dry in, or to expose to, the sun's rays; to ripen or prepare by such exposure.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sun 92% connected

See Sunn.

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Actinium noun · 78% connection

A supposed metal, said by Phipson to be contained in commercial zinc; -- so called because certain of its compounds are darkened by ex…

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Autotype noun · 78% connection

A photographic picture produced in sensitized pigmented gelatin by exposure to light under a negative; and subsequent washing out of t…

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Burn verb · 78% connection

To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some pr…

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Camera noun · 78% connection

A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: The camera obscura when used in photography. See Camera, and Camera obscura.

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Camera obscura unknown · 78% connection

An apparatus in which the image of an external object or objects is, by means of lenses, thrown upon a sensitized plate or surface pla…

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Camerae pl. · 78% connection

of Camera

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Cameras pl. · 78% connection

of Camera

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Cerargyrite noun · 78% connection

Native silver chloride, a mineral of a white to pale yellow or gray color, darkening on exposure to the light. It may be cut by a knif…

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Char noun · 78% connection

To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.

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Daguerreotype noun · 78% connection

An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action…

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Deflagrate verb · 78% connection

To cause to burn with sudden and sparkling combustion, as by the action of intense heat; to burn or vaporize suddenly; as, to deflagra…

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Degree noun · 78% connection

the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime); "murder in the second degree"; "a second degree burn"

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Developer noun · 78% connection

A reagent by the action of which the latent image upon a photographic plate, after exposure in the camera, or otherwise, is developed…

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Exposure noun · 78% connection

the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate; "he used the wrong exposure"

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Fireball noun · 78% connection

A ball filled with powder or other combustibles, intended to be thrown among enemies, and to injure by explosion; also, to set fire to…

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Firework noun · 78% connection

A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials th…

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Flame noun · 78% connection

To burn with a flame or blaze; to burn as gas emitted from bodies in combustion; to blaze.

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Fluorescence noun · 78% connection

That property which some transparent bodies have of producing at their surface, or within their substance, light different in color fr…

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