Abstract: A silver halide photographic material having on a support at least one hydrophilic colloid layer and at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing tabular silver halide grains having a grain diameter of at least 5 times the thickness of the grains and at least one compound represented by general formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a methyl group and R.sup.2 represents an alkyl group, a substituted alkyl group, an aryl group, or a substituted aryl group.

Abstract: A process for producing a tabular silver halide emulsion by using a sulfur-containing silver halide solvent that promotes growth of silver halide grains, and a light-sensitive material containing the emulsion are disclosed. The grain growth effect of the silver halide solvent is reduced or eliminated by using an oxidizing agent thereby excluding the adverse effect of the silver halide solvent upon chemical ripening.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide photographic emulsion containing at least one infrared sensitizing dye represented by following general formula (I) ##STR1## and at least one compound represented by following general formula (II) ##STR2## wherein R, R.sub.1 R.sub.2, V, Z, X, m, n, p, A, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, R.sub.6 and W are defined in the specification.

Abstract: A heat-developable color light-sensitive material is provided comprising on a support at least a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion, a binder, a compound capable of producing or releasing a mobile dye in direct or inverse proportion to the reaction of the light-sensitive silver halide being reduced into silver at elevated temperatures, and a dye having the general formula: ##STR1## wherein each of R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 is a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or alkenyl group,R.sup.3 is a hydrogen atom, or substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, alkoxy, aryl or alkenyl group,each of X.sup.1, X.sup.2, X.sup.3, and X.sup.4 is a hydrogen atom, halogen atom, hydroxyl, carboxyl, or substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, alkoxy, alkoxycarbonyl, acyl, acyloxyl, aryl, amino, or acylamino group,X.sup.1 and X.sup.2, and X.sup.3 and X.sup.4 can be mutually combined to form a benzene ring,A.sup.- is an anion, andn is equal to 0 or 1.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material containing a mesoionic 1,2,4-triazolium-3-thiolate compound in at least one hydrophilic colloidal layer of the silver halide photographic material gives photographic images having stable and excellent quality without being accompanied by the increased formation of fog and increased changes of sensitivity and gradation upon high temperature processing.

Abstract: A heat developable light-sensitive material comprising a support having provided thereon at least a light-sensitive silver halide, a binder, and a compound capable of ring-closure to produce a benzimidazole ring upon heat development can be developed to an increased maximum density with less fogging at a relatively low temperature in a short period of time.

Abstract: A hardening method for gelatin which comprises using as a hardening agent a compound represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, and R.sup.4 each represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkenyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group; or two of said R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, and R.sup.4 are combined with each other to form a ring (1); or 3 or more of said R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are combined with each other to form a condensed ring (2); X represents a group capable of being released when the compound shown by formula (I) reacts with a nucleophilic reagent; Y.sup..crclbar. represents an anion; or Y.sup..crclbar. is combined with one of X, R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, and R.sup.4, ring (1), or ring (2) to form an anionic portion of an intramolecular salt.

Abstract: A photothermographic construction comprises a light-sensitive color-forming element on a support base, the element comprising a silver source, optionally silver halide, a binder, and an oxidizable leuco phenazine, phenoxazine, or phenothiazine dye, and as development accelerator a carboxylic acid, Lewis acid, or Bronsted acid.

Abstract: An organic acid precursor having a structural moiety of the following formula ##STR1## bonded to a carbon atom. This acid precursor is useful as a development stopping agent in a photographic heat-developable process.

Abstract: A method for hardening gelatin is disclosed, which comprises incorporating in a gelatin-containing material at least one compound represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5, and R.sup.6 each represents an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aralkyl group, or an aryl group, or any two of R.sup.1 R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5, and R.sup.6 are bound to each other to form a ring, or any three or more of them are bound to each other to form a condensed ring, X represents a group capable of being eliminated when the compound represented by formula (I) reacts with a nucleophilic reagent, and Y.crclbar. represents an anion.

Abstract: A novel heat-developable color photosensitive material containing at least a light-sensitive silver halide, a binder, a dye providing substance capable of forming or releasing a diffusible dye by an oxidation-reduction reaction under heat and a transition metal ion, on a support.The present photosensitive materials provide a color image of high density with low fog in a short period of time, and have a good preservation-stability.

Abstract: An improvement in silver halide photographic light-sensitive materials having at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support is disclosed. The improvement is that chemically sensitized silver halide grains contained in at least one of the emulsion layers have a distinct stratiform structure having substantially two parts comprising an inside core part and a shell part of the uppermost layer, wherein the inside core part of said grains is composed of silver halide containing 10 to 45% by mol of silver iodide, the shell part of the uppermost layer of the grains is composed of silver halide containing 5% by mol or less of silver iodide, and the emulsion containing silver halide grains having the distinct stratiform structure have an average silver iodide content of 7% by mol or more. The materials have high sensitivity, low fog and excellent graininess.

Abstract: A heat developable light-sensitive material containing a compound represented by the general formula (I):[Ar.sub.n (R).sub.3-n CCO.sub.2 H].sub.l .multidot.B.sub.m (I)wherein ar represents an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; R represents a substituent other than an aryl group and a heterocyclic group; Ar and R may be bonded in a part thereof to form a ring; B represents a mono- or diacidic base which has a pKa of 7 or more and contains 12 or less carbon atoms; n represents an integer from 1 to 3; l and m each represents an integer of 1 or 2 and maintain a relationship in that a number of positive charge and a number of negative charge are equal; when n represents 1 or 2, two R's or Ar's may be the same or different, when n represents 3, three Ar's may be the same or different; and the substituent represented by Ar or R may be further substituted with a substituent.

Abstract: Disclosed is a negative fine grain silver halide photographic emulsion capable of afford hard tone and high D.sub.max and have a markedly higher sensitivity than convertional roomlight handlable light-sensitive materials and free from defects such as fogging and decrease in sensitivity under roomlight conditions. This emulsion contains at least 70 mol % of silver chloride and an organic desensitizer which has an anodic polarographic potential and a cathodic polarographic potential which when added together give a positive sum, the amount of said organic desensitizer being such that necessary to reduce the sensitivity of said emulsion by not more than log E=1.3 (log E=1.0 in the case of silver chloride). This emulsion may further contain a rhodium salt.

Abstract: An optical recording medium of thermoplastic, radiation-absorbing material comprises at least one polymeric dye which is capable of selective radiation absorption in the wavelength range 300-1000 nm so as to allow thermoplastic deformation of the material by a focused beam of radiation.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The material is comprised of a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing light-sensitive silver halide grains, at least 10% (in number) of said halide grains being tabular grains having a diameter/thickness ratio of not less than 5. The tabular grains include an iodine-containing silver halide solid solution in an interior portion thereof which is contained in areas covering, with regard to its major or minor axis direction, 80% by mole of the silver contained in the grain. Further, the tabular grains have an average iodine content in the internal high iodine phase which is five times that of the silver bromide, iodobromide or chloroiodobromide contained in the phase present outside of the internal high iodide phase. In addition, the silver contained in the internal high iodine phase is not more than 50% by mole of the total amount of silver in the tabular grains.

Abstract: Radiation sensitive silver halide photographic elements are disclosed which are protected from fog by quaternized aromatic oxatellurazinium salts. The aromatic oxatellurazinium salts can be initially incorporated in the photographic element as manufactured or during processing.

Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic material containing at least one layer of silver halide emulsion layers on a support characterized in that at least one layer of said silver halide emulsion layers contains mono-dispersed silver halide grains formed with (100) face and (111) face and said silver halide emulsion layer is hardened with at least one of the hardening agents represented by the formula [I] shown below and/or at least one of the hardening agents represented by the formula [II] shown below, ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a chlorine atom, a hydroxy group, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an alkylthio group, --OM group (M is a monovalent metal atom), --NR'R" (R' and R" are a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group, respectively) or --NHCOR"' (R"' is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group) and R.sub.2 has the same meanings as R.sub.1 except for a chlorine atom, ##STR2## wherein R.sub.3, R.sub.3 ', R.sub.4 and R.sub.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive emulsion contains silver halide particles, chemically sensitized, the average concentration of the silver iodide of which is from 0.5 to 10 mole % and which have inside part wherein not less than 20 mole percent silver iodide is present locally; and at least one cyanine dyes having the Formulas [I], [II] and [III] as herein described.

Abstract: A heat developable light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least a layer containing a novel compound having a group accelerating a reaction of decarboxylation, which releases a base by decarboxylation on heating. The heat developable light-sensitive material provides an image having a high density in a short time and has an improved storage stability.