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Clayden effects

Clayden effects is the plural of Clayden effect.

Meaning of Clayden effect

Noun

Clayden effect (plural Clayden effects)

  1. A dark streak that appears in a photograph when there has been a very brief flash of intense light, such as a stroke of lightning, while the photographic plate is being exposed. This effect is due to the flash causing the part of the photographic plate exposed to be less sensitive, so that it is less affected than the surrounds during the rest of the exposure.
    • After I had established in this way the similarity between the action of electrical discharges and of the Röntgen rays, it was very important to determine whether here, as in the Clayden effect, it was a matter of the brief but intense light action of the spark or whether perhaps some special...1910 April, Wilder D. Bancroft, “The Electrochemistry of light”, in The Journal of Physical Chemistry, volume 14, number 4, page 306

Questions about Clayden effects

What is Clayden effects the plural of?
Clayden effects is the plural of Clayden effect.

Words near Clayden effects in the dictionary

  1. Claycombs
  2. claycourt
  3. claycourts
  4. Clayden
  5. Clayden effect
  6. Clayden effects
  7. Clayderman
  8. Claydon
  9. Claydon with Clattercote
  10. claye
  11. clayed

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