The third layer is the gelatin binder that holds the silver grains of the photographic image.

As the film's silver grains get a thinner diet of light, the blacks get thinner.

Kodak created T-grain several years ago; the name refers to tabular silver grains.

She fingered for a moment the heavy silver grains, which she could feel through the canvas cloth.

And it explains why film manufacturers spend millions of dollars on research, trying to make particles of silver grain invisible.

Individual silver grains in the film are visualized with dark field microscopy.

The wood is usually hard and tough, and provided with conspicuous medullary rays, forming the silver grain.

It pulled harder; the silver grains snaked into a pattern around them.

But in the past, that also meant that the resulting pictures suffered from a coarse pattern of silver grains.

On the other hand, a developed silver grain can have billions of silver atoms.