Meaning Of The Word Daguerreotype

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What's The Definition Of Daguerreotype?

daguerreotype in American English
a photograph made by an early method on a plate of chemically treated metal
to photograph by this method
noun: an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor
transitive verb: to photograph by this process

daguerreotype in British English
noun: one of the earliest photographic processes, in which the image was produced on iodine-sensitized silver and developed in mercury vapour

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