Abstract: A dry solid scintillator counting composition for the detection of radiative substances in a liquid comprises a mixture of fluor particles and a binder bonding the particles into a coherent structure, the weight amount of the fluor being sufficiently greater than the weight amount of the binder to render the structure sufficiently porous between the disposed particles of fluor to provide transport of a saturating amount of liquid throughout at least 50% of the volume of the composition.

Abstract: A stabilizer precursor comprising a certain halo organic compound having a halogen substituent which is a chlorine, bromine or iodine atom in a photothermographic element or composition provides improved post-processing stability. This stabilizer precursor is useful in photothermographic materials, for example, comprising photosensitive silver salt and an oxidation-reduction image-forming combination comprising a heavy metal salt oxidizing agent with a reducing agent. Certain of the halo organic compounds are incubation antifoggants for certain of the photothermographic materials.