Re: [APML] To hypo or hypersensitize...that is the question!

[Radu Corlan <rcorlan@pcnet.ro>]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Brian larmay wrote:

> My girlfriend brought the word hypersensitize up in a
> darkroom class yesterday and the teacher laughed at
> her saying it was hyposensitizing.
> Needless to say it was her first day and she felt
> stupid.
> My being defensive over my girlfriend of just about
> anything, I want to ring his neck.
> 
> So what is it, hyper or hypo?
> I looked up the word hypo and it means to desensitize
> something, which Im assuming hyper means to sensitize.

The correct term is hyper (if used to convey the meaning of increasing 
something). 

Radu

> 
> Hypo also happens to be another name for sodium
> thiosulphate, which here is the meaning for that:
> 
> sodium thiosulphate
> noun;  a white soluble substance used, in the
> pentahydrate form, in photography as a fixer to
> dissolve unchanged silver halides and also to remove
> excess chlorine from chlorinated water. Formula:
> Na2S2O3
> 
> Bla whatever...fixer.
> 
> This is the same guy who told me at some point sensia
> was the same film as provia except it was aged
> differantly for the mass consumer.
> 
> Brian
> 
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