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Daguerreotypes were made of copper plates coated with silver. The plates were dipped in an iodine fluid, which created the silver-halide "silver iodide." Silver halides are silver molecules bonded with halogens (elements that end in "-ine"). Silver bromide and silver chloride are also silver-halides. Why make a silver-halide? Because these compounds have a property of photosensitivity (light sensitive). As this coated plates dried, they were exposed to light, hence the reason for the silver compound. Afterwards, they were coated again, this time with Mercury heated to 75 degrees Celsius. Finally, they are put in salt water to finish (this part I don't know why it's done...). The final picture was usually put in a glass case to protect it; oils produced by the skin can cause copper to corrode.
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Are daguerreotypes transferred to paper or is the finished product the copper plate?
paper
What is daguerreotypes?
A daguerreotype is a photograph made by an early photographic process. The photo was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor.
French inventor of an early photographic process in 1839?
Louis Daguerre introduced daguerreotypes in 1839.
Are daguerreotypes rare?
No, they are not rare but they are collected. Depending upon subject matter, the values vary but none are cheap any more.
What were pictures called back in the American Civil War?
You may be referring to daguerreotypes, invented by Louis Daguerre around 1826, which became popular around the 1830s to the 1860s.
Who. Invented. Camera?
I believe it was Louis Daguerre who is largely credited as the inventor of the process and apparatus to take "Daguerreotypes". This apparatus was the precursor to, and may be considered one of the first, cameras. At least that's what I was taught in high school.
The girl made a rainbow with a prism identify the verb?
Made?
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Made
What is the difference between made of and made from?
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It was made it was made on the Internet
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it is man-made and made out of ponies
