Making a photographic print using silver chloride

Photographic prints and developing equipment in a dark room lit by a red safelight

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Try this practical or demonstration to create a photographic image of an object using light sensitive silver chloride. Includes kit list and safety instructions.

The light sensitive silver halides, silver chloride, silver bromide and silver iodide, are used to make photographic film and photographic paper. 

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