noun
- Plural of metol; a chemical compound used as a photographic developer and reducing agent in various industrial applications.
Usage: technical; chemistry
Examples
- Metols are commonly used in black-and-white film development.
- The photographer mixed metols with other chemicals to create the developer solution.
- Industrial labs stock metols for use in photographic and analytical processes.
- Metols react with silver halide crystals to produce visible images on film.