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A chemical that is added to a photographic developer in order to retard development and reduce the amount of fog on a film
Answer for the clue "A chemical that is added to a photographic developer in order to retard development and reduce the amount of fog on a film ", 10 letters:
restrainer
Word definitions for restrainer in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Something that restrains 2 (context photography English) A chemical compound (such as potassium bromide), added to a developer to prevent fogging
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Restrainer \Re*strain"er\, n. One who, or that which, restrains.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a chemical that is added to a photographic developer in order to retard development and reduce the amount of fog on a film a person who directs and restrains [syn: controller ]
Usage examples of restrainer.
Sucre used two of the restrainers to secure one of the man's ankles to the arm of the couch.
He put one nylon loop round Philippe's leg and put a fully opened restrainer round Hisako's, then passed one through the other and tightened them, leaving her and Philippe hobbled to each other.
She still giggled, even as the plastic restrainers bit into her wrists and the weight of her body tore at her arm sockets.
She pulled forward and moved her wrists quickly up and down, then stopped and felt the inner surface of the restrainer where it had been rubbing against the metal.
She threw her hands up and down, drawing her spine back to the metal edge of the bench with the effort of forcing the restrainer against the leg.
The opened white loop of the plastic restrainer lay by the leg of the bench she'd been attached to.
Except for the restrainer fields, the thick walls, the windowless and barred room might have passed for a comfortable, if austere, apartment.
Lovely place it was, with a single bright and recessed light in the ceiling, solid glowstone bunk without furs, barred doors, and a handy-dandy automatic restrainer field to scramble my thoughts and keep me in.
This time, unlike the period in the cell-block, someone had set an entire bank of restrainer fields up and focused them all on me.
He had been left carrying sufficient momentum to slam him backwards into a chair, in which he was immediately confined by a restrainer belt across his stomach.
Desperation packed them four to a cabin, anchored at wrist and shoulder by restrainer straps, claustrophobia and tension vying for domination as they practised, and argued, and practised again .
Bodies float, twitching, in restrainer webs, their heads encased in cortex-wrap helmets.
After a few moments of fumbling with unfamiliar catches he released the restrainer belts and sat up.
His other arm was grabbed and he heard the soft clicks as the plastic restrainers were cinched home.
Controlled by a guard, the restrainers would shut down the nerves in Xris's good foot if he tried to run and at the same time short out his cybernetic leg.