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English
Etymology
From re- + halogen + -ize.
Verb
rehalogenize (third-person singular simple present rehalogenizes, present participle rehalogenizing, simple past and past participle rehalogenized)
- (photography) To restore or replace halogen atoms in a halogenated compound that is used in the emulsion layer of film or photographic paper.
1897 December, E. A. Robins, “Halation”, in Anthony's Photographic Bulletin, volume 28, number 12, page 272:On the other hand, in the uniformly illuminated particle, if the light is powerful enough to rehalogenize the subsalt at all, it will do so uniformly.
2000, Ralph Jacobson, Sidney Ray, Geoffrey G Attridge, Manual of Photography:Following the silver dye-bleach, unwanted silver salts are removed in a fixing bath. In some processes this fixer may be preceded by a silver bleach to rehalogenize silver image not oxidized by the dye-bleach.
2003, Tim Rudman, The Photographer's Toning Book: The Definitive Guide, page 39:As previously explained in the chapter "What's going one?", the halide in the bleach is used to rehalogenize the emulsion and this profoundly affects the way the emulsion will develop or tone.