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carbon print

carbon print noun: an early photographic print made by soaking a carbon tissue in potassium bichromate.

Noun

carbon print (plural carbon prints)

  1. an early photographic print made by soaking a carbon tissue in potassium bichromate
    • It was a small, stuffy, defunct room, of mahogany, and deathly enlargements of photographs of departed people done in carbon.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 10”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC

Forms of carbon print

pluralcarbon prints

Questions about carbon print

What does carbon print mean?
Carbon print means an early photographic print made by soaking a carbon tissue in potassium bichromate.
What part of speech is carbon print?
Carbon print is a noun.
What is the plural of carbon print?
The plural of carbon print is carbon prints.

Words near carbon print in the dictionary

  1. carbon oxysulphide
  2. carbon paper
  3. carbon papers
  4. carbon planet
  5. carbon planets
  6. carbon print
  7. carbon printing
  8. carbon prints
  9. carbon process
  10. carbon resistor
  11. carbon resistors

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