Abstract: A silver halide photographic material composed of a support having thereon at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one layer of the material containing a compound of formula (I):A--X--Y--B (I)wherein A represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkenyl group or a substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl gruop, each having from 8 to 25 carbon atoms; X represents ##STR1## R represents an alkyl group having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms or --Y--B; Y represents a group comprising units ##STR2## wherein a is a number from 5 to 50; b is a number from 2 to 20; c is a number from 0 to 3; d is a number from 0 to 20; R' represents a hydrogen atom, a methyl group or a phenyl group, with the proviso that, when R' represents a methyl group or a phenyl group, c represents 0, and, when R' represents a hydrogen atom, c represents a number from 1 to 3; and B represents a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having up to 8 carbon atoms or a subs

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one other hydrophilic colloid layer, wherein at least one compound represented by formula (I) is contained in at least one layer of the silver halide photographic material and wherein an organic material selected from the group consisting of a natural or synthetic water-soluble polymer is contained in at least one of the light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and the other hydrophilic colloid layer such that at least 10% by weight of the organic material originally present in the layers of the silver halide photographic material is washed out from the layer during development processing:A--X--Y--B (I)wherein A represents an alkyl group, an alkenyl group or an aryl group, which has from 8 to 25 carbon atoms; X represents ##STR1## wherein R represents an alkyl group having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms or --Y--B; Y represents a group consisting of at least one of eac

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, silver halide photographic material containing in the at least one silver halide emulsion layer or at least one other constituting layer a latex having repeating units represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein A represents a group having a dissociating group which has a pKa of about 4 or lower, said pKa being measured at 25.degree. C. in water; R.sub.1, R.sub.2, and R.sub.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed. The material is comprised of a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein at least one of the silver halide emulsion layer and another constituent layer contains a fluorine-containing nonionic surface active agent, a fluorine-containing ionic surface active agent and a fluorine-free nonionic surface active agent.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support and at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein at least one of said emulsion layers or another layers which constitutes said material contains a surface active agent represented by the following general formula: ##STR1## wherein Rf represents a saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon group having 3 to 24 carbon atoms wherein all or a part of hydrogen atoms is substituted by a fluorine atom, R.sub.1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon group having 4 to 24 carbon atoms, A represents a trivalent bonding group, B represents a divalent group having an ether bond, D represents a hydrophilic group, and n represents an integer of 2 to 100.

Abstract: This invention provides a silver halide photographic light sensitive material having an improved blackness of image silver, as well as high sensitivity and covering power. The present silver halide photographic light sensitive material includes at least one layer of a silver halide photographic emulsion on at least one side of a support, characterized in that said layer of silver halide photographic emulsion contains fine silver halide grains, or tabular silver halide grains having a grain thickness of 0.4.mu. or less, and a dye having a maximum absorption wave length of 520 to 580 nm is contained in said layer of silver halide photographic emulsion and/or another layer such that the transmission density of green light is 0.03 or less after the developing treatment of the photographic light sensitive material.

Abstract: In heat developable photographic system of dry procedure, color images are formed by imagewise exposing and then heating a light-sensitive material comprising a support having provided thereon a light-sensitive layer containing silver halide, a binder, and a compound capable of producing or releasing, upon reduction of light-sensitive silver halide to silver at elevated temperatures, a mobile dye, as a direct or inverse function of the reduction reaction, allowing the produced or released mobile dye to migrate into a dye-fixing material having incorporated therein a hydrophilic thermal solvent and fixing the dye thereto, then separating the light-sensitive material from the dye-fixing material, with a fluorine-containing surfactant being incorporated in at least one of the uppermost layers on the contacting sides of the light-sensitive material and of the dye-fixing material.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is described, comprising a support having provided thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein there is at least one hydrophilic colloidal layer containing at least one nonionic surface active agent and at least one anionic surface active agent having a polyoxyethylene group therein.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is described, comprising a hydrophilic organic colloid layer, wherein the hydrophilic organic colloid layer contains at least one compound represented by ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aromatic group;R.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom or ##STR2## wherein L.sub.4 represents a divalent bonding group, and R.sub.5 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aromatic group;R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 each represents a hydrogen atom, or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group;L.sub.1 represents a divalent bonding group;L.sub.2 and L.sub.3 each represents a single bond or a divalent or trivalent bonding group;n and n' each represents an integer of 1 or 2;A represents a repeating unit resulting from polymerization of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer copolymerizable with monomers constituting the units ##STR3## wherein X.sub.1 and X.sub.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material for photomechanical process is described, comprising a support, at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer thereon, and at least one light-insensitive upper layer on the emulsion layer. At least one of the light-insensitive upper layers contains a compound having an electric charge and being substantially insoluble in water but soluble in a water-miscible organic solvent; a method for a reducing treatment is also described, which comprises bringing a silver image formed on the light-sensitive material into contact with a reducer through the light-insensitive upper layer containing the aforesaid compound.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed comprising a support having thereon at least one layer containing a nonionic surface active agent having a polyoxyethylene group and a fluorine-containing compound, wherein the element composition of the surface of said layer has a ratio of F.sub.ls peak intensity/C.sub.ls peak intensity in the range of 0.3 to 2.0 when measured by an X-ray photoelectron spectrometry.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least one photographic silver halide emulsion layer. The light-sensitive material contains at least one hydrophilic organic colloid layer in which at least one photographically useful reagent is dispersed in the presence of a specific surface-active polymer. The polymer contains at least 5 mole % of units represented by the following general formula (I-1) or (I-2): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, alkenyl or aryl group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, A and D each represents a single bond or a divalent linking group, R.sub.2 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl group, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 each represents hydrogen or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl group, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 or R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 may respectively form a ring, X represents a single bond or a substituted or unsubstituted alkylene, alkenylene or arylene group, Y represents --COOM, --SO.

Abstract: A photographic silver halide light-sensitive material is disclosed comprising a support and at least one silver halide emulsion layer on the support, wherein the emulsion layer or another hydrophilic organic colloid layer contains a compound represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 represent the same or different groups and are each hydrogen, an alkyl group, or an aryl group, or R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 can be linked together to form an N-containing heterocyclic ring, provided that R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are not both hydrogens; R.sub.f is a fluorine-containing group; one of X and Y is a hydrogen atom and another is a --SO.sub.3 M group wherein M is a cation.A method for high speed coating a photographic emulsion or another hydrophilic organic colloid composition is also disclosed wherein the improvement comprises a compound represented by formula (I) to the emulsion or the composition.

Abstract: A process for preparing an aqueous dispersion of a pigment is disclosed. The process involves providing a surface active agent having a solubility of 0.1% or less in water at a temperature of about 25.degree. C. The agent is also soluble in an organic solvent. The agent is dispersed in water to provide an aqueous dispersion of the agent. The pigment is then dispersed in the aqueous dispersion of the agent to form the aqueous dispersion of the pigment. The dispersion causes less foaming, aggregation and sedimentation of the pigment particles when the dispersion is stored. The dispersion is particularly useful when utilizing carbon black as the pigment and applying the dispersion to the field of photographic materials. The presence of the surface active agent does not have secondary effects on photographic materials.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer wherein the photographic light-sensitive material contains a compound represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein Rf represents a saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon group having from 3 to 20 carbon atoms wherein all or a part of the hydrogen atoms are substituted with fluorine atoms; A and B each represents a divalent linking group; R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 each represents an alkyl group and at least one of R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 represents an alkyl group substituted with a monovalent group, and X represents an anion.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having improved antistatic properties is disclosed. The material is comprised of a support having thereon a light-senstive silver halide emulsion layer and a light-insensitive layer. The material includes (A) a flourine containing cationic surface active agent and (B) an ultraviolet ray absorbing polymer latex which comprises a polymer or a copolymer having a repeating unit derived from a monomer represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## within the formula (I) the Q is an ultraviolet ray absorbing group represented by the following general formula (II) or (III): ##STR2## the substituents within the formulae shown are defined within the specification. The ultraviolet ray absorbing polymer latex is present in the material in an amount in the range of 10 to 2,000 mg/m.sup.2 of the material.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium containing a ferromagnetic powder, a binder and a lubricant is disclosed. The lubricant comprises (1) abrasive particles having a Mohs' hardness of about 6 or more and a particle size of about 5 microns or less and (2) an ester of an aliphatic acid having 20 to 26 carbon atoms and a monovalent alcohol having 1 to 26 carbon atoms.

Abstract: A photographic light-sensitive material is described comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer, said material including at least one hydrophilic colloid layer containing at least 0.1 g/m.sup.2 of a water-soluble polymer having a molecular weight of from 10,000 to 500,000 and consisting essentially of a repeating unit represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, or an alkyl group; L represents a single chemical bond or a divalent connecting group; M represents a hydrogen atom, an ammonium ion, or an alkali metal ion; X represents from 10 to 100 mol%; y represents from 0 to 90 mol%; and A represents a copolymerized monomer unit derived from a copolymerizable ethylenically unsaturated monomer.The photographic light-sensitive material has improved antistatic properties without damaging other photographic properties.

Abstract: A photographic light-sensitive material with improved antistatic properties comprising a support having thereon at least one hydrophilic colloid layer containing(i) a nonionic surface active agent having a polyoxyethylene group,(ii) an anionic surface active agent represented by the following general formula (I)R--X--SO.sub.3 M (I)wherein R represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkylaryl group or an alkenyl group; X represents --O--CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O).sub.m C.sub.n.sbsb.1 H.sub.2n.sbsb.1 +1--, ##STR1## or --O--; M represents a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal atom, an ammonium group or an animo group; m represents 0 or an integer of 1 to 25; n.sub.1 represents an integer of 2 to 5; l represents an integer of 1 to 5; and R.sub.

Abstract: A photographic material is described containing in at least one photographic layer a compound of formula (I) ##STR1## wherein at least one of R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 is a fluorine-substituted alkyl group, and R.sub.1 or R.sub.2 can be a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl group, and M is a cation.