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Autochrome vs Auxochrome - What's the difference?

autochrome | auxochrome |

As nouns the difference between autochrome and auxochrome

is that autochrome is an early photograph produced by means of a glass plate coated on one side with a random mosaic of microscopic dyed grains of potato starch under silver halide emulsion while auxochrome is any atom or group which, when added to a chromophore, causes a bathochromic shift in its spectrum.

autochrome

English

Noun

(wikipedia autochrome) (en noun)
  • An early photograph produced by means of a glass plate coated on one side with a random mosaic of microscopic dyed grains of potato starch under silver halide emulsion.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=May 21, author=Randy Kennedy, title=A Splash of Photo History Comes to Light, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=This century-old Edward Steichen autochrome , probably of Charlotte Spaulding, has been discovered after decades in storage. }}

    auxochrome

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, chemistry) any atom or group which, when added to a chromophore, causes a bathochromic shift in its spectrum