sodium thiosulphate

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   a compound used as a fixing agent in photographic developing

   Synonymshyposodium thiosulfate

   Broaderfixing agent

Questions about sodium thiosulphate

What does sodium thiosulphate mean?

sodium thiosulphate means "a compound used as a fixing agent in photographic developing".

What is another word for sodium thiosulphate?

Close synonyms include hypo, sodium thiosulfate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sodium thiosulphate a common word?

sodium thiosulphate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.