Abstract: A method for the formation of a color image is described, wherein a silver halide color photographic material comprising a photographic layer provided on a reflective support is imagewise exposed and then subjected to development for a period of time within 2 minutes and 30 seconds with a color developer which contains an aromatic primary amine developing agent but does not substantially contain benzyl alcohol, wherein said photographic layer contains at lesat one specific non-coloring coloration accelerator selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by formulae (I) through (VII) defined in the specification.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having provided thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said emulsion layer or a layer adjacent thereto contains at least one pyrazoloazole coupler and substantially all photographic layers including the light-sensitive silver halide layer and the layer adjacent thereto each having been coated on the same surface of the support and then dried have a pH lower than a pKa of said coupler by 1.0 or more. The material exhibits improved color reproducibility, sensitivity and development stability.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is described, comprising a support having coated thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, the color photographic light-sensitive material having a photographic layer containing at least one kind of magenta coupler of 5-pyrazolone type having an arylthio group at the coupling position thereof, the arylthio group having an alkoxy group or an aryloxy group at the ortho position to the sulfur atom thereof and the alkoxy group and the aryloxy group being substituted with a cyano group, a halogen atom, a sulfonyl group, a sulfinyl group, a phosphonyl group, or an ##STR1## group, wherein A represents a chemical bond, an alkylene group, an arylene group, an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, or an imino group; and B represents a hydroxy group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, an acyclic amino group, or a hydrazino group.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having coated thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer is described, the color photographic light-sensitive material having at least one layer containing (1) at least one 2-equivalent magenta coupler represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein W represents a phenyl group substituted with at least one halogen atom, alkyl group, alkoxy group, alkoxycarbonyl group or cyano group; Y represents an acylamino group or an anilino group; and Z represents a group capable of being released upon coupling, and (2) at least one amine compound having at least two groups other than a hydrogen atom represented by formula (II): ##STR2##

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having coated thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, the color photographic light-sensitive material having a photographic layer containing at least one 2-equivalent 5-pyrazolone type magenta coupler represented by the general formula (I) described below and an amount of a calcium atom contained in the color photographic light-sensitive material being up to 10 mg/m.sup.2. ##STR1## wherein W represents an aryl group; X represents an aliphatic group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; and Y represents an acylamino group, a ureido group or an anilino group.The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material containing the 2-equivalent 5-pyrazolone magenta coupler and the restricted amount of the calcium atom exhibits photographic properties which are not influenced by variations in the pH of the color developing bath and can provide color images fast to light and heat.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having coated thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, the color photographic light-sensitive material having a photographic layer containing at least one magenta coupler represented by the following general formula (I) or (II): ##STR1##

Abstract: A latent curing agent for epoxy resin, characterized in that the latent curing agent is an adduct obtained by reacting (a) a polyfunctional epoxy compound, (b) a compound having at least one OH, NH.sub.2, NH or SH group together with a tertiary amino group in the molecule and (c) a carboxylic acid anhydride is a good curing agent for epoxy resins. The present curing agent is useful in formulating storable, one-package, heat-curable epoxy resin-based compositions.

Abstract: A color photographic light-sensitive material which contains a photographic coupler having a naphthalene nucleus in the bonding position other than the coupling position, wherein the naphthalene nucleus contains at least one hydroxyl group and at least one sulfonyl group as a substituent or contains at least one hydroxyl group and at least one sulfinyl group as a substituent is disclosed.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for removing fine cold shut cracks on a horizontally and continuously cast steel strand, using ejection of a plurality of metal shots, comprises: horizontally and intermittently withdrawing a cast steel strand from a horizontal mold by a plurality of cycles each comprising a pull and a push, cooling the cast steel strand in a cooling zone provided following the horizontal mold on the same horizontal level as that of the horizontal mold, increasing the temperature of the surface portion of the solidified shell of the cast steel strand in a heat-restoring zone provided following the cooling zone on the same horizontal level as that of the cooling zone, to soften the surface portion of the solidified shell of the cast steel strand, and then continuously ejecting a plurality of metal shots from a plurality of shooters in a shooting zone provided following the heat-restoring zone on the same horizontal level as that of the heat-restoring zone onto the cast steel strand, to weld fine cold

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, the color photographic light-sensitive material containing a coupler having a group represented by the general formula (I) ##STR1## wherein W represents ##STR2## represents an organic residue necessary for forming a 5-membered or 6-membered nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring or a condensed ring thereof together with W; Y represents an organic residue connecting Z and X and containing at least one carbon atom which is bonded to Z; Z represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; and n represents an integer of 1 to 2; at the coupling position of the coupler and a method of forming a color image using the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material containing a coupler having at least one of a sulfamoylphenylenesulfonyl group, a sulfamoylaminophenylenesulfonyl group and a sulfonamidophenylenesulfonyl group as a substituent. Preferred couplers are represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein all moieties are defined in the specification wherein Cp is a coupler residue, L is a divalent linking group and X represents --NHSO.sub.2 --, ##STR2## or --SO.sub.2 NH, and n represents 0-4. Groups R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are defined in the specification.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The material has improved sensitivity and granularity as well as an increased gradient. Further, the material can be processed by rapid processing methods. The material is comprised of a support having positioned thereon a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a compound represented by the general formula (I):A-B (I)wherein A is residue of a compound capable of undergoing a coupling reaction with an oxidized primary amine developer, the residue being derived by eliminating a hydrogen atom from an active position of the compound. B is a group capable of being released through a coupling reaction to exert a fogging effect.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material containing at least one coupler having a ballast group represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein X represents a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, a hydroxy group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, an acylamino group, a sulfonamido group, a carbamoyl group, a sulfamoyl group, a ureido group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an alkoxycarbonylamino group, a sulfonyl group, an alkylthio group, a cyano group, a nitro group or a carboxyl group, l represents an integer of 1 to 4, and m represents an integer of 1 or 2, with the proviso that when X represents a hydroxyl group, a substituent other than a hydroxy group is also present on the phenyl ring.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material containing at least one coupler having a ballast group represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein ##STR2## represents a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic ring, and m represents an integer of 1 or 2.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a paper support, at least one color image-forming emulsion layer, and an oxygen-impermeable layer having an oxygen permeability of not more than 2.0 ml/m.sup.2 .multidot.hr.multidot.atm, said color image-forming layer and oxygen-impermeable layer being provided on the same side of the paper support.

Abstract: A multilayer color photographic material having at least one red sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan coupler of the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein X represents a hydrogen atom or a chlorine atom and n is a positive integer of 8 to 20, is processed by a color developer containing a developing agent of the formula (II): ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 each represents a hydrogen atom, a chlorine atom, a methyl group, an ethyl group, a methoxy group or an ethoxy group; R.sub.5 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an alkoxyalkyl group wherein the number of carbon atoms in said alkyl moiety is 1 to 4, or a group of the formula --(CH.sub.2).sub.m R.sub.6 ; R.sub.6 represents a hydroxy group, a methylsulfonamido group, or an ethylsulfonamido group; and m represents a positive integer of 1 to 4.

Abstract: A multilayer color photographic material with improved color reproduction comprising a support having thereon at least two photosensitive silver halide emulsion layers which provide color images having different colors from each other, the multilayer color photographic material containing at least one interlayer color correction coupler as defined hereinafter.

Abstract: A process for forming color photographic images having improved granularity, sharpness, and gradation by applying, after image exposure, a color reversal process including a step of performing color development in the presence of a competing coupler. The element processed is a multilayer reversal color photographic material comprising a support having coated thereon at least three differently sensitive photographic silver halide emulsion layers, the outermost layer of the color photographic material being blue-sensitive and containing a nondiffusible coupler forming a yellow dye by a coupling reaction with an oxidized primary aromatic amino color developing agent and represented by the following general formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group or an aryl group; R.sub.

Abstract: A thermally diffusible composite comprising a thermally diffusible medicine such as allethrin, a thermogenic composition including an alkali metal sulphide or the like, carbonaceous material or the like and, if desired, a filler such as cellulose. In one embodiment, this invention relates to such a thermally diffusible composite the thermogenic composition or the whole of which is enclosed in an oxygen-impermeable container.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material containing a development inhibitor releasing compound, which is capable of forming a substantially colorless product, and which is represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein X represents ##STR2## --SO.sub.2 R.sub.1, --SO.sub.2 OR.sub.1, --SO.sub.2 NH.sub.2, --SO.sub.2 NHR.sub.1, --SO.sub.2 N(R.sub.1).sub.2, --CN, --N.sup.+ (R.sub.1).sub.3 or ##STR3## R.sub.1 represents an aliphatic group, an aromatic group or a heterocyclic group and further two R.sub.