Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the material is contained at least one complex selected from complexes having a compound represented by the following formula (I) as at least one of their respective ligands or complexes having a diketone compound as at least one of their respective ligands: wherein X represents an atom or atomic group bridging two pyridine rings, each of R1 to R4 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent group, and each of R1′ to R2′ represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent group.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion comprising epitaxial junction type tabular grains.

Abstract: The Silver halide grains in the silver halide emulsion is disclosed, comprising silver halide grains containing three or more kinds of transition metal complexes each having a different electron-releasing time respectively classified into any of Class A (100 seconds or more), Class B (more than {fraction (1/10)} seconds and less than 100 seconds), Class C (more than {fraction (1/1000)} seconds and {fraction (1/10)} seconds or less) and Class D ({fraction (1/1000)} seconds or less).

Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion is disclosed, comprising silver chloroiodide grains or silver chloroiodobromide grains, having 90 mol % or more of a silver chloride content, wherein the silver chloroiodide grains or silver chloroiodobromide grains have a layer having a silver iodide content of decreasing in the depth direction from the grain surface.

Abstract: A silver halide emulsion which comprises silver halide grains having a silver chloride content of at least 90 mole %, wherein tabular grains satisfying the following conditions (1) and (2) account for at least 70% of the total projected area of all the silver halide grains present: (1) the grain has {111} major faces, an aspect ratio of 2 or more and a thickness of 0.30 &mgr;m or less; and (2) a ratio (b/a) of the grain thickness (b) to the longest distance (a) between at least two parallel twin planes of the tabular grain is in the following range: 1.5≦(b/a)<5.

Abstract: The present invention provides silver halide grains in which a difference in ionic conductivity between a region exhibiting highest ionic conductivity and a region exhibiting lowest ionic conductivity is at least 100 times. The invention also provides a silver halide emulsion comprising the silver halide grains as well as a silver halide color photographic photosensitive material comprising the silver halide emulsion.

Abstract: A method of preparing a dye solution having a high concentration and high stability, wherein a counter ion-free dye and a base having a pKa value of from 6.6 to 9.0 are dissolved in a solvent having a relative dielectric constant of at least 10 at 20° C., and a silver halide emulsion and a silver halide photographic material which are reduced in fogging by the use of the dye solution prepared in accordance with the aforesaid method.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion comprising silver halide grains, wherein 50% or more of the total number of all the silver halide grains are occupied by tabular grains satisfying the following requirements (i) composed of silver iodobromide or silver chloroiodobromide, and having (111) faces as main planes, (ii) having an equivalent circle diameter of 1.0 &mgr;m or more and a thickness of 0.1 &mgr;m or less, (iii) having 10 or more dislocation lines at a fringe portion thereof, and (iv) composed of a core portion substantially not containing any dislocation line and a shell portion containing dislocation lines, and the shell portion having a thickness of 0.01 &mgr;m or more as measured in a direction perpendicular to the main plane.

Abstract: A radiation-sensitive emulsion comprised of high chloride silver halide grains having a central portion accounting for up to 99 percent of total silver and containing a first dopant of Formula (I): [RuL6]n wherein n is −2, −3 or −4, and L6 represents bridging ligands which can be independently selected, provided that at least four of the ligands are anionic ligands, and at least one of the ligands is a cyano ligand or a ligand more electronegative than a cyano ligand; and a second dopant comprising an iridium coordination complex having ligands each of which are more electropositive than a cyano ligand; wherein the first dopant and the second dopants are located together in a common dopant band in an interior shell region of the central portion of the silver halide grains that surrounds at least 70 percent of the silver and, with the more centrally located silver, accounts for 90 percent of the silver halide forming the grains, and wherein the second dopant is present in the silver

Abstract: The present invention provides a tabular internal latent image type direct positive photographic silver halide emulsion which provides a high sensitivity and a low re-reversal negative sensitivity and a color diffusion transfer photographic light-sensitive material comprising such an emulsion. The present invention also provides an internal latent image type direct positive photographic silver halide emulsion which can be prepared with a good reproducibility and a color diffusion transfer photographic light-sensitive material less susceptible to variation of sensitivity and S/N ratio comprising such an emulsion. An internal latent image type direct positive photographic silver halide emulsion comprising tabular silver halide grains having an average grain diameter of not less than 0.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion that comprises silver halide grains. The emulsion was prepared in the presence of at least one halogen oxoacid salt represented by formula (I) below: M(XOn)m  (I) wherein M represents an alkali metal ion or alkaline-earth metal ion, X represents a halogen atom, n represents 2 or 3, and m represents 1 or 2. A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material that has at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support. The material contains the above silver halide photographic emulsion.

Abstract: The invention provides a photothermographic material including, on a same surface of a substrate, photosensitive silver halide grains, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent and a binder, in which the photosensitive silver halide grains include iridium and a metal of groups 3 to 10 of the periodic table other than iridium, and 90% or more of the total iridium amount within the grain are contained in a core of 50% or less of the grain.

Abstract: A blue-sensitive, radiographic silver halide film comprises a silver halide emulsion layer comprising predominantly tabular silver halide grains that have an aspect ratio of at least 15, a grain thickness of at least 0.1 &mgr;M, and comprise at least 90 mol % bromide and from about 0.5 to about 2.75 mol % iodide, based on total silver halide. Substantially all of the iodide is present in an internal localized portion of the tabular silver halide grains that excludes the surface of the grains. The tabular silver halide grains are dispersed in a hydrophilic polymeric vehicle mixture comprising at least 0.5% of oxidized gelatin, based on the total dry weight of the polymeric vehicle mixture in the emulsion layer. In addition, the tabular grain emulsion includes a mercapto-substituted benzothiazole, benzoxazole, or benzimidazole to provide desired image tone and processability.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising, on a support, at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one non-light-sensitive layer, wherein 60% or more of the total projected area of silver halide grains contained in said at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer are tabular silver halide grains having an average aspect ratio of 5 or more, and a film pAg on the light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer side of said material falls within 4.0 to 8.5.

Abstract: A blue-sensitive radiographic silver halide film comprises a silver halide emulsion layer comprising predominantly tabular silver halide grains that have an aspect ratio of at least 15, a grain thickness of at least 0.1 &mgr;m, and comprise at least 90 mol % bromide and up to 4 mol % iodide, based on total silver halide. Substantially all of the iodide is present in an internal localized portion of the tabular silver halide grains that excludes the surface of the grains. The tabular silver halide grains are dispersed in a hydrophilic polymeric vehicle mixture comprising at least 0.5% of oxidized gelatin, based on the total dry weight of the polymeric vehicle mixture in the emulsion layer. The tabular silver halide grains are spectrally sensitized using a combination of spectral sensitizing dyes to provide increased speed and reduced dye stain.

Abstract: A blue-sensitive, radiographic silver halide film comprises a silver halide emulsion layer comprising predominantly tabular silver halide grains that have an aspect ratio of at least 15, a grain thickness of at least 0.1 &mgr;m, and comprise at least 90 mol % bromide and up to 4 mol % iodide, based on total silver halide. Substantially all of the iodide is present in an internal localized portion of the tabular silver halide grains that excludes the surface of the grains. The tabular silver halide grains are dispersed in a hydrophilic polymeric vehicle mixture comprising at least 0.5% of oxidized gelatin, based on the total dry weight of the polymeric vehicle mixture in the emulsion layer.

Abstract: A radiographic silver halide film has reduced yellow dye stain by including a blend of tabular silver halide grains in the emulsion layers. The blend of grains includes blue-sensitive tabular silver halide grains that have an aspect ratio of at least 15, a grain thickness of at least 0.1 &mgr;m, and comprise at least 90 mol % bromide and up to 4 mol % iodide, based on total silver halide. Substantially all of the iodide is present in an internal localized portion of the tabular silver halide grains that excludes the surface of the grains. The blend also includes green-sensitive tabular silver halide grains that have an aspect ratio of at least 20, a grain thickness of at least 0.07 &mgr;m, and comprise at least 90 mol % bromide, up to 1.5 mol % chloride, and up to 1.5 mol % iodide, based on total silver halide. The molar ratio of silver in the blue-sensitive silver halide grains to the silver in the green-sensitive silver halide grains is from about 2:1 to about 6:1.

Abstract: A blue-sensitive, radiographic silver halide film comprises a silver halide emulsion layer comprising predominantly tabular silver halide grains that have an aspect ratio of from 8 to 14.5, a grain thickness of from about 0.15 to about 0.3 &mgr;m, and comprise at least 90 mol % bromide and up to 6 mol % iodide, based on total silver halide. The tabular silver halide grains are dispersed in a hydrophilic polymeric vehicle mixture comprising at least 0.5% of oxidized gelatin, based on the total dry weight of the polymeric vehicle mixture in the emulsion layer.

Abstract: This invention relates to a photographic element comprising a support and a silver halide emulsion layer, the emulsion layer comprising a water soluble Au(I) complex having the formula [L—Au—L]n−M+n wherein the complex is symmetrical; L is an organothiosulfonato ligand which is an antifogging, stabilizing, or sensitizing compound, n is 1 to 4, and M is a cationic counterion. This invention further relates to a silver halide photographic element comprising a support and a silver halide emulsion layer, the emulsion layer comprising an organothiosulfonato Au(I) complex having the formula [A—SO2S—Au—SSO2—A]n−M+n wherein M is a cationic counterion; A is a substituted or unsubstituted organic group; and n is 1 to 4; and wherein the compound is symmetrical. It further relates to a method of preparing a silver halide emulsion utilizing said organothiosulfonato Au(I) complexes.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of a radiation-sensitive silver halide emulsion comprised of high bromide cubical silver halide grains is described, the process comprising: (a) providing in a stirred reaction vessel a dispersing medium and high bromide silver halide seed grains, the seed grains comprising at least 5 mole % of the final emulsion silver, and (b) precipitating a silver halide shell which comprises at least 5 mole % of the final emulsion silver onto the seed grains by introducing at least a silver salt solution into the dispersing medium at a rate such that the normalized shell molar addition rate, Rs, is above 1.

Abstract: A process for producing a photosensitive silver halide emulsion is disclosed, comprising silver halide grains and a dispersion medium, said process comprising steps of adding a water-soluble silver solution, an aqueous alkali halide solution and an aqueous solution of gelatin having a molecular weight of 5,000 to 30,000 or less to a mixing vessel different from a reactor for the production of emulsion to prepare silver halide fine grains, adding the silver halide fine grains to the reactor for the production of emulsion to grow silver halide grains, and ultrafiltering the silver halide grains during the addition of silver halide fine grains, wherein 50% or more of the entire projected area of said emulsion grains is occupied by silver halide tabular grains having an aspect ratio of 10 or more and a thickness of 0.15 &mgr;m or less.

Abstract: A silver halide emulsion is described, comprising at least a dispersion medium and silver halide grains, wherein said silver halide grains have an average grain size of from 0.005 to 0.1 &mgr;m and a hexacyano metal complex represented by formula (I) is present on the outermost surface of the silver halide grain: [M(CN)6]n−  (I) wherein M represents Fe, Ru, Os, Co, Rh, Ir, Cr or Re, and n represents 3 or 4. Also described are a method for producing the emulsion, and a silver halide light-sensitive material and a photothermographic material using the emulsion.

Abstract: Variation of charged amount accompanying production amount change does not affect photograph performance, a flexible production of an optimal amount corresponding to commercial scene needs may be performed, and a silver halide emulsion having monodispersibility may be produced with sufficient productivity. In the first line a series of continuous operations are performed that a silver salt aqueous solution, a halide salt aqueous solution, and a hydrophilic dispersion medium aqueous solution are mixed and reacted to generate silver halide grain nuclei, and a mother liquor containing the silver halide grain nuclei is stored in cooled state until a amount of production reaches a desired production amount of a silver halide emulsion.

Abstract: A process of preparing a high bromide tabular grain emulsion comprising a dispersion medium and silver halide grains including tabular grains having {111} major faces and an aspect ratio of at least 2, which contain greater than 50 mole percent bromide, based on silver, and which account for greater than 50 percent of total grain projected area, where such tabular grains have an average aspect ratio of at least 5, the process comprising (i) in a grain nucleation step creating in a dispersing medium tabular silver halide grain nuclei containing parallel twin planes and (ii) in a grain growth step subsequently growing the tabular grain nuclei into tabular grains in a silver halide reaction vessel by adding a silver ion source and a halide ion source to the reaction vessel and precipitating silver halide onto the tabular grain nuclei, wherein thiocyanate ion is introduced into the silver halide reaction vessel prior to the addition of at least the final 10 mole percent of the total silver added to the

Abstract: A color image forming method is disclosed, comprising exposing a silver halide color photographic material and developing the exposed photographic material at 43 to 180° C. to form a color image, wherein at least one light-sensitive layer comprising a silver halide emulsion comprising tabular silver halide grains having an average aspect ratio of at least 8. There is also disclosed a digital image forming process, wherein image recording information of the photographic material which was formed by use of the color image forming method is coverted to digital image information through an image sensor.

Abstract: A process of producing a silver halide photographic emulsion containing tabular silver halide grains having an aspect ratio of 5 or more, which comprises using silver halide fine grains as prepared by the following method in at least one of a nucleation step and a growth step of the production of silver halide emulsion, the method comprising mixing at least a silver salt aqueous solution and a halide aqueous solution to prepare silver halide fine grains, wherein one of the silver salt aqueous solution and the halide aqueous solution is introduced as a jet flow into a mixer; a region where the jet flow slows down is provided within the mixer; and the other solution is introduced into the jet flow before the velocity of the jet flow has become {fraction (1/10)} of the velocity at the time when the jet flow comes into the slowing-down region.

Abstract: The invention provides a silver halide emulsion, comprising: silver halide grains containing silver chloride as a primary component and further containing silver bromide; wherein, when an average value of a silver bromide content of the silver halide grains is represented by Y (mol %), a silver bromide content of at least 68% of the silver halide grains is from 0.82×Y (mol %) to 1.18×Y (mol %). Further, the invention provides a method of producing the silver halide emulsion, comprising the step of reacting at least a silver ion, a chlorine ion and a bromine ion; wherein a growth speed at a time of forming a silver bromine-containing phase in the reaction process is at least 60% of a critical growth speed.

Abstract: A tabular silver halide emulsion wherein the tabular grains account for more than 75% of the total grain projected area said emulsion comprising silver halide grains nucleated in the presence of nucleation peptizer and thereafter grown in the presence of growth peptizer, wherein at least one of the peptizers is substantially pure collagen like material prepared by genetic engineering, said peptizer having an amino acid sequence comprising more than 4 different amino acids. A process of preparing the AgX emulsion. A process of producing recombinant collagen like polypeptide comprising expression of a collagen like polypeptide encoding nucleic acid sequence by a microorganism to a degree exceeding 0.95 grammes /liter, said recombinant collagen being free of helix structure and preferably the expression occurring in a microorganism other than E. coli or Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Abstract: The mixing state of static mixing is optimized, so that it is possible to form silver halide emulsion particles in small sizes with an excellent mono-dispersion characteristic. An aqueous solution of haloid salt is blown out from a first nozzle into a mixing chamber as a rectilinear flow of turbulent flow, and before eddy viscosity formed when the rectilinear flow is blown out from the first nozzle of a small diameter to the mixing chamber of a greater diameter reaches a maximum, or before a maximum flow speed of the rectilinear flow is reduced to {fraction (1/10)} or below, an aqueous solution of silver nitrate is blown out from a second nozzle as a crossflow of turbulent flow which crosses the rectilinear flow at a substantially right angle and is entrained by the rectilinear flow, so that the two solutions are allowed to mix and react with each other instantaneously, and a liquid resulting from the mixing and reaction is discharged from a discharge duct.

Abstract: A silver halide emulsion comprises at least a dispersion medium, water and a silver halide grain, wherein grains occupying from 40 to 100% of the total projected area of said gains have an AgI content of 85 to 100 mol %, a single kind of outer shape except for size and the equivalent-circle projected diameter of from 0.

Abstract: A method for the preparation of silver haloiodide photographic emulsions, in particular the preparation of tabular grains haloiodide photographic emulsions. The method comprises the steps of adding pulsed jets of iodide salt and silver salt to a host emulsion.

Abstract: A silver halide photosensitive material comprises at least one light-sensitive layer and at least one non-light-sensitive layer on a support. The photosensitive material contains at least one compound represented by general formula (1), and a ratio of fluorescent X-ray intensity of fluorine to fluorescent X-ray intensity of carbon, F/C, in the surface of the photosensitive material is 0.

Abstract: A high velocity jet of aqueous silver salt solution through the first tubing and a high velocity jet of aqueous halide salt solution through the second tubing are forced to merge in the merging zone to induce mixing action by means of kinetic energy of the fluid in the merging zone, aqueous hydrophilic dispersant solution in the third tubing is then supplied continuously between the two high velocity jets which have already merged to mix the three solutions in the merging zone instantaneously, and the mixed solution containing silver halide particles which have been formed by reaction caused by the mixing is immediately removed out of the merging zone.

Abstract: A producing method of a silver halide emulsion comprising the steps of adding silver halide fine grains AgX0 having an to a silver halide seed crystal emulsion containing at least water, dispersion medium 1 and silver halide crystal, and growing the seed crystal by dissolving the added AgX0, wherein AgX0 are formed in dispersion medium solution 2 containing dispersion medium 2, the pH of dispersion medium solution 2 of the time when AgX0 are formed is from 7.3 to 12.2, the average equivalent-circle projected area diameter of AgX0 is from 0.001 to 0.2 &mgr;m, and AgX0 are non-twin crystal grains not substantially having twin planes.

Abstract: A silver halide emulsion containing silver halide grains comprising silver chlorobromide grains or silver chloroiodobromide grains, wherein each of silver halide grains has a silver chloride content of not less than 98% and comprises a silver bromide-containing layer having a silver bromide content of 0.5 to 5%, and the silver bromide-containing layer is located at a depth of 0 to 0.01 &mgr;m from the surface of the grain. A silver halide emulsion comprising silver halide grains containing Compound A having adsorptivity to silver, wherein each of the silver halide grains has a silver chloride content of not less than 90% has a core-shell structure comprised of a core and shell having different contents of Compound A each other, and the content of Compound A in the shell is smaller than the content of Compound A in the core.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for preparing photographic silver halide tabular grains emulsions. The method of the invention comprises a first single nucleation step wherein stable tabular seeds of silver halide are formed, and a second step wherein different batches of seeds obtained in the first step are grown to yield identical or different emulsions. This combination of steps represent a robust process for preparing tabular grain emulsions at different scales.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion comprising silver halide grains is disclosed, which is obtained through a process including at least one step of forming grains using a dispersion medium having a low viscosity, wherein 50% or more of the entire projected area of all silver halide grains in the emulsion is occupied by silver halide tabular grains having an aspect ratio of 4 or more and a twin plane spacing of 0.012 &mgr;m or less. Further disclosed is a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material using the emulsion.

Abstract: The Silver halide grains in the silver halide emulsion is disclosed, comprising silver halide grains containing three or more kinds of transition metal complexes each having a different electron-releasing time respectively classified into any of Class A (100 seconds or more), Class B (more than 1/10 seconds and less than 100 seconds), Class C (more than 1/1000 seconds and 1/10 seconds or less) and Class D (1/1000 seconds or less).

Abstract: A silver halide emulsion is disclosed, comprising silver halide grains having a chloride content of not less than 90 mol % and internally doped with an iridium compound (A) and a compound (B) forming a stronger electron trap than said iridium compound (A), the silver halide grains meeting the following requirement: 10<X<1000 and 0<Y≦X wherein X represents an average number of molecules of said iridium compound (A) contained per grain and Y represents an average number of molecules of said compound (B) contained per grain.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion comprising grains, wherein 50% or more (numerical ratio) of all the grains are occupied by tabular grains meeting the requirements (i) to (iii): (i) a silver iodobromide or silver iodochlorobromide tabular grain having (111) faces as main planes and having two parallel twin planes; (ii) a thickness of 0.12 &mgr;m or less; and (iii) the tabular grains have a grain fringe portion meeting the requirements: (a) the grain fringe portion has a phase of high silver iodide content in either of an upper region and a lower region than a region sandwiched between the two twin planes, and (b) “A”, which represents the maximum local silver iodide content (mol %) in the phase of high silver iodide content, satisfies the relationship: A−6.0≧B, wherein “B” represents local silver iodide content (mol %) in an opposite part to the phase of high silver iodide content.

Abstract: At least one of a nucleus forming process, a nucleus growing process, a chemical sensitizing process, and a spectral sensitizing process for producing a silver halide photographic emulsion is performed by using a microreactor. A minute region of the microreactor is used to precisely perform a reaction of nucleus formation. A condition under which host grains are allowed to react with newly supplied silver halide nuclei is made uniform to cause uniform crystal growth. A predetermined quantity of molecules for chemical sensitization is doped in a crystal lattice of a nucleus of silver halide to effect a sensitizing process. Alternatively, a spectral sensitizing process in which a single molecular layer of a spectral sensitizer is uniformly adsorbed on a silver halide nucleus grain surface is securely carried out.

Abstract: A process for producing a photosensitive silver halide emulsion is disclosed, comprising silver halide grains and a dispersion medium, said process comprising steps of adding a water-soluble silver solution, an aqueous alkali halide solution and an aqueous solution of gelatin having a molecular weight of 5,000 to 30,000 or less to a mixing vessel different from a reactor for the production of emulsion to prepare silver halide fine grains, adding the silver halide fine grains to the reactor for the production of emulsion to grow silver halide grains, and ultrafiltering the silver halide grains during the addition of silver halide fine grains, wherein 50% or more of the entire projected area of said emulsion grains is occupied by silver halide tabular grains having an aspect ratio of 10 or more and a thickness of 0.15 &mgr;m or less.

Abstract: A system has been disclosed for use in radiographic industrial non-destructive testing materials and personal monitoring, making use therefor, of tabular silver brom(oiod)ide emulsion grains having {111} major faces, an average equivalent circular diameter of at least 0.5 &mgr;m and an average thickness of less than 0.30 &mgr;m, having been chemically sensitized by the steps of adding at least a gold salt in order to provide the surface of said tabular grains with at least 6000 atoms of gold per &mgr;m2 of its grain surface and per (0.1 &mgr;m of thickness)2; and at least a sulfite salt in such an amount that the ratio of the number of gold atoms per &mgr;m2 and (concentration of said sulfite salt, expressed in mmole per mole of silver)2 is at least 200000.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for producing a silver halide photographic emulsion comprising the step of reacting a water-soluble silver salt and at least one water-soluble halide salt containing chloride or bromide in aqueous solution in the presence of an organic Grain Growth Modifier (GGM) compound, containing a halide X, which halide is not released in the form of an ion, to form light-sensitive silver halide grains having a silver halide content of a least 50 mole %, said grain growth modifier compound being water-soluble with a solubility>4 mmole per liter, and being selected from the group of compounds with an aliphatic or cyclo-aliphatic backbone R to which is attached one or more halide groups and at least one polar group.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of a radiation-sensitive silver halide emulsion comprised of high bromide tabular silver halide grains is described, the process comprising: (a) providing in a stirred reaction vessel a dispersing medium and high bromide silver halide tabular seed grains, the seed grains comprising at least 5 mole % of the final emulsion silver, and (b) precipitating a silver halide shell which comprises at least 5 mole % of the final emulsion silver onto the seed grains by introducing at least a silver salt solution into the dispersing medium at a rate such that the normalized shell molar addition rate, Rs, is above 1.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion is disclosed, comprising silver halide grains wherein at least 80% of a total grain projected area is accounted for by tabular grains, the tabular grains having an average aspect ratio of at least 12, a variation coefficient of grain diameter of less than 30%, an average overall surface iodide content of 5 to 15 mol % and an average surface iodide content in the vicinity of corners of the grains of less than 3 mol %; and the tabular grains further having a shallow electron trap center in the peripheral region of the grain.

Abstract: A tabular silver chloride iodide or silver chloride-bromide-iodide emulsion with a chloride content of at least 90 mol %, an iodide content of 0.01 to 5 mol % and a cubic habit, which is characterized in that with respect to the projected area of all the crystals at least 80% of the crystals have an average aspect ratio of at least 8, a maximum crystal thickness distribution width of 15% and a maximum particle size distribution width of 25%, and which can be produced by a new process, wherein the supersaturation during crystal growth is adjusted within a defined range, is distinguished by high spectral sensitivity and by good stability on storage at elevated temperatures and particularly at high atmospheric humidities.

Abstract: Photothermographic imaging materials having increased photospeed are provided by certain selenium chemical sensitizers that are added during the formulation of a photothermographic emulsion. These selenium chemical sensitizers can be used alone or in combination with other sulfur, tellurium, or gold chemical sensitizers as well as with oxidatively decomposed sulfur-containing compounds.

Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide photographic emulsion comprising silver halide grains, wherein 50% or more of the projected area of the silver halide grains to be contained is occupied by tabular grains having an aspect ratio of 2 or more and a grain thickness of 0.2 &mgr;m or less, with the tabular grains each having a phase with the content of silver bromide being 10% or more, and wherein in the phase, the tabular grains each contain a metal complex dopant in an amount necessary to increase the density of a dislocation. This emulsion produces high contrast and better granularity while it has high sensitivity. Further, there is also disclosed a silver halide photographic emulsion, wherein the average equivalent-circle diameter of the total tabular grains among the silver halide grains contained is 2.0 to 4.0 &mgr;m, and the tabular grains contain at least one metal complex having, as a ligand, a heterocyclic compound in a number more than half of the coordination number of the metal atom.

Abstract: A silver halide photosensitive material has been provided which has, in at least one light-sensitive emulsion layer thereof, a silver halide emulsion comprising grains or crystals rich in silver chloride, which grains have been chemically sensitized in a specific way in the presence of a substituted phenyl-mercaptotetrazole compound according to the formula represented in the detailed description and in the claims, said compound having been added at the end of chemical sensitization, and, moreover the method of preparing said material has been claimed.