Abstract: A process for forming a dispersion of milled solid particles of a compound comprising forming a milling mixture of a liquid medium, milling media having an average particle size of less than or equal to about 300 microns, and a solid compound in a mixing vessel, and agitating the milling mixture with a mixer to contact the milling media and solid compound and to reduce the solid compound to a desired average particle size to form a dispersion of milled solid particles in the liquid medium, wherein the volume ratio of the milling media to the combined volume of the liquid media and solid compound in the milling mixture is less than 1, a rotor-stator mixer comprising rotor and stator elements separated by a rotor-stator gap of greater than the average particle size of the milling media and not greater than about 2.

Abstract: An on-line method for detecting particle size of a liquid during a process in which there is not a correlation between low absorbance with small particle size, the method comprises the steps of measuring a plurality of reference particle sizes each associated with a particular near infrared diffuse reflectance spectrum for creating a reference infrared diffuse reflectance spectrum having high absorbance with small particle size; measuring on-line a near infrared diffuse reflectance spectrum of the liquid during the process; and determining the particle size of the on-line liquid based on correlating the on-line-measured particle size with the reference near infrared diffuse reflectance spectrum.

Abstract: An on-line method for detecting particle size of a liquid during a process in which there is not a correlation between low absorbance with small particle size, the method comprises the steps of measuring a plurality of reference particle sizes each associated with a particular near infrared diffuse reflectance spectrum for creating a reference infrared diffuse reflectance spectrum having high absorbance with small particle size; measuring on-line a near infrared diffuse reflectance spectrum of the liquid during the process; and determining the particle size of the on-line liquid based on correlating the on-line-measured particle size with the reference near infrared diffuse reflectance spectrum.

Abstract: A photographic element comprising a support, having at least a silver halide light-sensitive layer and a transparent magnetic recording layer, the transparent magnetic layer having ferromagnetic particles in a polymeric binder, ferromagnetic particles having a size of at least 30 m.sup.2 /gm and being present in the transparent magnetic layer in a coverage of from about 1.times.10.sup.-11 mg/.mu.m.sup.3 to about 1.times.10.sup.-10 mg/.mu.m.sup.3, the polymeric binder containing up to about 25 weight percent based on the weight of the polymeric binder of a dispersant-cobinder comprising a poly(C.sub.2-4 -alkyleneimine) carrying at least two mono- or poly(carbonyl-C.sub.1-7 -alkyleneoxy) groups.