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Silver chloride emulsions of modified crystal habit and processes for their preparation

US4400463A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 30, 1982
Grant dateAug 23, 1983
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Expiry dateSep 30, 2002

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03C2200/43
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Radiation-sensitive photographic emulsions are disclosed comprised of a dispersing medium and silver halide grains the halide content of which is at least 50 mole percent chloride, based on silver. The silver halide grains include tabular grains having a thickness of less than 0.5 micron, a diameter of at least 0.6 micron, and an average aspect ratio greater than 8:1 which account for at least 50 percent of the total projected area of the silver halide grains. The tabular grains have two opposed substantially parallel major crystal faces lying in {111} crystal planes and exhibiting at least one of the following features: (1) at least one peripheral edge lying parallel to a <211> crystallographic vector lying in the plane of one of the major faces and (2) bromide and/or iodide incorporated in a central grain region. The tabular grains are formed in the presence of an aminoazaindene and a peptizer having a thioether linkage.

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