Abstract: An automated in situ heat induced antigen recovery and staining method and apparatus for treating a plurality of microscope slides. The process of heat induced antigen recovery and the process of staining the biological sample on the microscope slide are conducted in the same apparatus, wherein the microscope slides do not need to by physically removed from one apparatus to another. Each treatment step occurs within the same reaction compartment. The reaction conditions of each reaction compartment for treating a slide can preferably be controlled independently, including the individualized application of reagents to each slide and the individualized treatment of each slide. The reagents are preferably held in a reagent dispensing strip similar to a “blister pack”.

Abstract: A multicolor imaging material comprises a substrate and a photosensitive layer comprising a heat-meltable microcapsule layer. The heat-meltable microcapsule has a capsule wall including an infrared absorbent and a coupling component as core material.The photosensitive layer comprises a heat-meltable microcapsule layer and a color forming layer comprising a diazonium compound and a basic substance. The color forming layer is formed between the substrate and the heat-meltable microcapsule layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a two-component diazotype material comprising a support and one or several light-sensitive layers, each of which contains at least one light-sensitive diazonium salt, a coupler component and an acid stabilizer, and at least one of the layers contains a compound which absorbs light in the ultraviolet spectral region. The light-absorbing compound is present in the form of a dye salt of at least one benzothiazole which is converted into its leuco base under the action of an alkaline medium. It thus partially or completely loses its absorptivity toward radiation in the long-wave ultraviolet and short-wave visible spectral regions. The light-absorbing compound comprises a benzothiazole, in particular according to the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 denotes hydrogen, alkyl or aralkyl,R.sub.2 denotes hydrogen or an optionally substituted alkyl, aralkyl, aryl, pyridylalkyl, carbalkyl, carboxyalkyl, carboxyaryl, carbamoyl, or sulfamoyl radical, orR.sub.1 and R.sub.

Abstract: This invention relates to 2-hydroxy-3-naphthoic acid amides of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is hydrogen, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, cycloalkyl, aralkyl, or aryl group, and R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are identical or different and are hydrogen, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, cycloalkyl, aralkyl, or aryl group, or, together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached, a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group.

Abstract: Negative-working diazography formulation is comprised of (i) at least one hexafluorophosphate diazonium salt adapted to photolytically cleave into an acid catalyst, (ii) at least one acid labile enolic, preferably arylenolic blocked-coupler adapted to be converted in the presence of acid to an active azo-coupling component, and (iii) an effective amount of an additive, such as p-toluenesulfonyl benzamide, capable of controlling the pH of films prepared from said formulation when subjected to a clearing step as defined herein.

Abstract: Thermal diazotype sheets having substituted imidazoline acid-neutralizers are shown to have shelf stability and short development times.

Abstract: A method of photographic trichromatic printing comprises the steps ofA. applying to the substrate a photosensitive emulsion comprising(a) a binder;(b) three types of grains of semiconductor oxides dispersed in the binder, each adapted to desorb OH.sup.- ions under the action of a primary color radiation; and either(c) a diazo system comprising a diazonium salt and three couplers each being adsorbed onto, or dispersed in the immediate vicinity of, one of said three types of grain; or(d) a diazo system comprising a coupler and three diazonium salts each being adsorbed onto, or dispersed in the immediate vicinity of, one of said three types of grain;B. exposure,C. development by heating; andD. decomposition of unreacted diazonium salts by exposure to UV light, to fix the image.An emulsion so produced and substrates carrying such an emulsion are also produced.