The purpose of the developing step is to:

a. remove unexposed silver halide crystals from the film emulsion.
b. neutralize the alkalinity prior to the film progressing to the fixer.
c. reduce exposed silver halide crystals to black metallic silver.
d. prevent the rapid buildup of image contrast.


c. The role of the developing step is to reduce the exposed silver halide crystals within the film emulsion to black metallic silver.

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