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What does light-sensitive mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word light-sensitive? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. affected by, or sensitive to light.
  2. (of substances and surfaces) changing chemically or physically when exposed to light.
  3. (biology) (of cells, tissue or organs) able to detect the presence (or intensity) of light.
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To make the light-sensitive paper, a photographer mixes the emulsion for his platinum prints, then places it on art paper.
This layer may be thick or thin, depending on the species, but it often contains light-sensitive chemicals.
Daphnia magna has a light-sensitive eye, meaning that the eye will track a moving light source.
Both these morphological changes reduce the angle through which the individual light-sensitive cells receive light.
The plates have a light-sensitive plastic layer which, after exposure to a positive film, can be developed in water.
The image of a woman crouching before an ivy-covered wall, her body an apparition of light-sensitive salts, is anchored to a new body.

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