Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rehalogenize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: re-halo-g-e-nize
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To restore or replace halogen atoms in a halogenated compound that is used in the emulsion layer of film or photographic paper.

Example Sentences

"On the other hand, in the uniformly illuminated particle, if the light is powerful enough to rehalogenize the subsalt at all, it will do so uniformly."
"Following the silver dye-bleach, unwanted silver salts are removed in a fixing bath. In some processes this fixer may be preceded by a silver bleach to rehalogenize silver image not oxidized by the dye-bleach."
"As previously explained in the chapter "What's going one?", the halide in the bleach is used to rehalogenize the emulsion and this profoundly affects the way the emulsion will develop or tone."

Etymology

From re- + halogen + -ize.

Inflected Forms

rehalogenizes (present, singular) rehalogenizing (participle, present) rehalogenized (participle, past) rehalogenized (past)

Questions

What does rehalogenize mean?: To restore or replace halogen atoms in a halogenated compound that is used in the emulsion layer of film or photographic paper.
Where does rehalogenize come from?: From re- + halogen + -ize.

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