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Chemistry and Mechanism of Sivadjian’s Hygrophotographic SystemFootnote

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Pages 2-8 | Received 01 Oct 1965, Published online: 23 Jul 2016
 

Abstract

J. Sivadjian has described a hygrophotographic method for the measurement af humidity and moisture in which a coating of yellow AgHgl2, darkened by exposure to light, reverts to a yellow colour in the presence of moisture. Using X-ray diffraction techniques the nature of the products formed at each stage in the preparation of the hygrophotographic compound and its photolysis products have been investigated. The compound AgHgl2 does not appear to exist. The yellow light-sensitive product is a mixture of mercurous and silver halides together with silver tetraiodomercurate (II), Ag2Hgl4. A mechanism for the light-sensitive reaction is proposed involving sensitization of the photolysis of mercurous iodide by silver iodide, and silver tetraiodomercurate (II).

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Paper presented at the “Congres International de Science Photographique” held in Paris in September 1965.

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