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Uncommon card · Science
Photographic plate, an Uncommon card
Photographic plates preceded film as the primary medium for capturing images in photography.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 47
- Power
- 111
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 27,000
Power 111 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Photographic plate quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Photographic plate card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Glass plates, thinner than standard window glass, became widely used in the late 19th century for their ______ and reliability.
Answer
clarity. Glass plates, thinner than standard window glass, became widely used in the late 19th century for their clarity and reliability. From the Photographic plate article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Homological algebra. Homological algebra 68 · Photographic plate 64 · Miguel de Icaza 61 · Christian Doppler 57 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- These plates, made of metal or glass and coated with a light-sensitive emulsion, were integral to early photographic processes such as heliography, daguerreotypes, and photogravure.
- Glass plates, thinner than standard window glass, became widely used in the late 19th century for their clarity and reliability.
- Although largely replaced by film during the 20th century, plates continued to be used for specialised scientific and medical purposes until the late 20th century.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Photographic plate article was read about 27,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 47: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
How to get Photographic plate
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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The cards just above and just below Photographic plate in the power ranking, all domains together.
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- South Ossetian Autonomous OblastUncommon · Society · ATK 64 DEF 47
- Władysław ReymontUncommon · Arts · ATK 63 DEF 48
- Brachypelma hamoriiUncommon · Nature · ATK 60 DEF 51
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Photographic plate (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : unbekannt, okänd, onknown, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
