Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

farmer's reducer

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.27 in modern English

Syllables: farmer's re-duc-er
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A mixture of sodium thiosulfate with the bleaching agent potassium ferricyanide, used to reduce the density of a negative or gelatin silver print.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Named after Howard Farmer.

Usage

Inflected Forms

Farmer's reducers (plural)

Questions

What does farmer's reducer mean?: A mixture of sodium thiosulfate with the bleaching agent potassium ferricyanide, used to reduce the density of a negative or gelatin silver print.
Where does farmer's reducer come from?: Named after Howard Farmer.

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