Process for the preparation of high bromide tabular grain emulsions
US6623918B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | May 29, 2002 |
| Grant date | Sep 23, 2003 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 29, 2022 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG03C2200/43
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
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 1.0×10−3 min−2, Rs satisfying the formula: where Ms is the number of moles of silver halides added to the reaction vessel during the formation of the shell, ts is the run time, in minutes, of the silver salt solution for the formation of the shell, and Mt is total moles of silver halide in the reaction vessel at the end of the precipitation of the shell; wherein the concentration of silver halide grains in the reaction vessel at the end of the precipitation of the shell is at least 0.5 mole/L. The invention provides an improved manufactur…
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