Mixes the mercury and rare earths that make metal halide and CFL lamps work.

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Many knew that digital imaging and its cousin technologies were destined to cannibalize silver halide imaging.

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As a result of the digital transition in image capture, silver halide film has gone into serious decline.

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These solid state lights have a 50, 000-hour lifespan and use half the electricity of traditional metal halide street lights.

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Chemically, potash is potassium chloride (KCl) which is a metal halide salt composed of potassium and chlorine.

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The actual strategy was a more reactive one and geared towards preserving the silver halide business as long as they could.

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Just as grain size in silver halide film ultimately limits the amount of detail you can see in a photograph, the background noise produced by the sensor does much the same in digital imaging.

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