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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 1999  > June  >
Chemical Education Today
JCE Classroom Activity
Photochemistry and Pinhole Photography: An Interdisciplinary Experiment
Angeliki A. Rigos and Kevin Salemme
Department of Chemistry, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA 01845
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June 1999
Vol. 76 No. 6
p. 736A
Abstract
This interdisciplinary activity combines chemistry and art through the construction and use of a pinhole camera. We focused on the chemistry of the black and white photographic process as the science component of this activity. The reactions involved are good examples o photochemistry and multiphase chemical reactions, since the light sensitive materials (silver halides) are in the form of a gelatin emulsion of microscopic crystals.

Related information can be found on pages 737-746 in Pushing the Rainbow: Frontiers in Color Chemistry; Light and Color in Chemistry: Report on Two ACS Presidential Events.

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Information on the history of photography and the chemistry of black and white photography, references and sources of additional related activities, and student photographs taken with pinhole cameras are available as supplementary materials. The material can be accessed as a pdf file using Acrobat Reader, or as one Microsoft Word document, eight JPEG documents, asn two GIF documents. The JPEGs and GIFs can be viewed using Photoshop. The word and photoshop documents have been compressed into sit (for Macintosh) and zip (for Windows) files.
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Rigos, Angeliki A.; Salemme, Kevin. J. Chem. Educ. 1999, 76, 736A.
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Keywords
Metals; Photochemistry; Redox Reactions; Nonmajor Courses
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