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  • G03C—PHOTOSENSITIVE MATERIALS FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC PURPOSES; PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES, e.g. CINE, X-RAY, COLOUR, STEREO-PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES; AUXILIARY PROCESSES IN PHOTOGRAPHY
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• photographic silver halide emulsions can be chemically sensitized with a variety of materials to increase the speed of the emulsions as opposed to optical sensitizing in which the optical range of sensitivity is increased.
• My invention concerns photographic silver halide emulsions with increased speed.
• sulfur-acceptors are cyanide, arsenite, sulfite, sulfinates as Well as tri-valent phosphorous and arsenic compounds. It has been found the combinations of these sulfur-acceptors with sulfur in photographic emulsions does not produce useful speed increases without concomitant increases in incubation fog, toxicity or stain produced by the undesired solvent action.
• sensitizing amount of a sensitizer combination comprising elemental sulfur and an organic thiol.
• the subject sulfur and thiol combinations are synergistic combinations in that the sensitizing effect of such combinations is substantially greater than the additive sensitizing effect of the components of such combinations.
• Sensitizer precursors can also be used.
• sensitizing amounts of the subject sensitizer combinations are utilized, such amounts being widely varied.
• the amount of sensitizer utilized is varied depending on the effects desired, the degree of ripening, the silver content of the emulsion, the particular stage at which the sensitizer is added during the preparation of the emulsion and related variables familiar to those skilled in the art.
• organic thiol precursor per mole of silver halide in the emulsion are preferably utilized.
• An excess, on a molar basis, of organic thiol or precursor thereof over elemental sulfur or precursor thereof is generally utilized, however, the relative proportions of these sensitizer components can be broadly varied.
• the sulfur sensitizer combination component can be added tophotographic silver halide emulsions as elemental sulfur per se or as a sulfur-containing precursor thereof which forms elemental sulfur in the emulsion.
• Illustrative sulfur precursors are certain sulfur-containing compounds such as disclosed by A. J. Parker and N. Kharash in Chem. Rev., 59, 583 (1959), and by O. Foss in Acta Scand., 4, 404 (1950).
• a useful sulfur precursor is dithiodimorpholine.
• the organic thiol sensitizer combination component can be added to photographic silver halide emulsions as an organic thiol per se such as aryl or alkyl thiols or as a precursor thereof that forms an organic thiol in the emulsion.
• the thiol precursors or donors of the invention are normally nonsensitizing sulfur-containing compounds and include thioethers and disulfides.
• Typical thiols have the formulas QSH and wherein Q is an aryl radical and including carboxyl and alkyl radical substituents having 1 to 10 and preferably 1 to 4 carbon atoms, T is a hydrogen atom, a carboxyl, a hydroxyl, a sulfonate, a phenyl or an amino radical, and n is an integer of 1 to 10 and preferably 1 to 4;
• Illustrative thiol precursors that can be utilized in the present sensitizing process are sulfur-containing derivatives having formulas Formula A Formula B wherein R is an aryl radical, and wherein X is a thioether radical.
• the aryl radical for the substituent R is typically a phenyl radical or a substituted phenyl radical such as can be represented by the formula wherein Y is a hydrogen atom, a nitro radical, an alkoxy radical (OR), an acyl radical a tertiary amino radical iandpthers, with R and R being alkyl radicals having 1 to 20 and preferably 1 to 4 carbon atoms.
• the thioether lradical for the substituent X can be represented by the Iformula SZ wherein Z represents an organic radical
• Z represents an organic radical
• Other useful precursors for the subject thiol addenda x are'thiuronium compounds having the formula wherein R is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl radical (especially a lower alkyl radical having 1 m4 carbon atoms), or
• R is' an amino f suchas an aryl radical, an'aralkyl radical, a substituted radical (especially a carbalkoxylrradical containing 2 to ialkyl radical, a heterocyclic radical'or the like,
• Typical thioether radicals include such radicals as;
• R is a carboxyl radical, an amino radical, or an ,alkyl radical generally having 1 to 20 and preferably 1 to 4 carbon atoms;
• n is an integer of 1 to 10 and preferably 1 to 4 and wherein R is the same as described above;
• Illustrative 1 alkyl radicals for the above substituents include methyl,
• the addenda having the structure of Formula A above are ,B-aminosulfides that can i be readily prepared by reacting thiols and Schiff bases radical (e.g. amino, monoalkyl and dialkylamino especial-.
• R is a carbalkoXyl 5 carbon atoms), an alkyl radical (especially an alkyl radical containing 1m 4 carbon atoms), a heterocyclyl radical (e.g. tetrazaindenyl and pyridyl) or an amido' radical such as amido, thiazylamido, phenylamido and aminocarbonyl, such as described by Spath in US.
• Such compounds have the formula s-A-s-B wherein A is a divalent organic radical and B 'isa ureido 7 radical, a substituted ureido, radical or a nitrogen-con- I wherein R is an alkylene radical having 1 to 20 and pref- 7 3 'erably 1 to 4 carbon atoms and M is an amido radical, fa sulfonylradical, a hydroXyl radical, an alkoxy radical, j an amino radical, an ester radical, a corboxyl radical or 1 a heterocyclic radical such as a morpholino radical; or a heterocyclic organic'radical such as a phenyl tetrazine 'jradical, a morpholino radical or the like.
• A can be a carbon chain such as alkylene generally having 1 to 10 and preferably 1 to 4 carbon atoms (e.g. methylene, ethylene, trimethylene etc.), substituted alkylene, methine, polymethine, or a radical comprising a carbocyclic f component (cg. ortho-, metaor para-Xylene).
• alkylene generally having 1 to 10 and preferably 1 to 4 carbon atoms (e.g. methylene, ethylene, trimethylene etc.), substituted alkylene, methine, polymethine, or a radical comprising a carbocyclic f component (cg. ortho-, metaor para-Xylene).
• B can be a ureido radical having the formula wherein R R and R each can be hydrogen atoms, alkyl radicals, 'aralkyl radicals or a heterocyclic radical having the'formula wherein D represents the non-metallic atoms necessary to complete a heterocyclic nucleus containing 5 or 6 atoms in the heterocyclic ring '(e.g. iminazole, dihydroiminazole, benziminazole, pyrimidine, thiodiazine, thiodiazole etc.).
• Particularly useful thiol precursors are isothiourea derivatives having the formulas and R R R R R R R and R can be hydrogen atoms, hydrocarbon radicals such as aryl radicals as illustrated by phenyl radicals, alkyl-substituted phenyl and alkyl radicals and substituted alkyl radicals.
• R and R can also be acyl radicals having the formula wherein R is an alkyl radical.
• R and R together can also be the necessary carbon and hydrogen atoms to form an alkylene radical linking both adjacent nitrogen atoms to form a cyclic nucleus as illustrated by the following moiety wherein R is an alkylene radical,
• R can be an acyl radical in addition to those substituents described above for R
• the letter n can be an integer of at least 1, and generally 1 to 10, and preferably 1 to 3.
• the letter B can be a carboxyl radical, a sulfonate radical, a hydroxyl radical or an amino radical, including substituted amino radicals, of the formula wherein R is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl radical, and wherein R is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl radical or an acyl radical, their salts having the formula or a morpholino radical, E being other than a carboxyl radical when n is 1 and R and R are hydrogen.
• isothiourea derivatives of the invention also exist as inner salts as illustrated by the following equation,
• German Patent 1,031,303 published June 4, 1958, describes the preparation of typical isothiourea derivatives of the invention.
• Such thiazolines can be represented by the formula wherein F is an organic radical (e.g. vinylene, ethylene, phenylene and naphthylene), G is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl radical or a hydrocarbon radical of the benzene series, H is an acid radical and I is an alkyl radical.
• F is an organic radical (e.g. vinylene, ethylene, phenylene and naphthylene)
• G is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl radical or a hydrocarbon radical of the benzene series
• H is an acid radical
• I is an alkyl radical.
• Typical suitable thiazoline derivatives have the formula Certain of such derivatives have corresponding tautomeric aisaass ,forms, such tautomeric forms being included in our inven tion a the above formulas, R R R and R can be either hydrogen atoms or hydrocarbon radicals such as 'alkyl radicals or aryl radicals, typical suitable alkyl radicals having 1 to carbon atoms and generally 1 'to 8. carbon atoms such as methyl, n-propyl, 2-ethylhexyl,
• R and R can be hydrogen atoms, hydrocarbon radicals as described above for R R R and R hydrocarbon radicals containing such substituents as hydroxyl radicals, or R and R together can be the necessary carbon and hydrogen atoms to form an aryl radical which includes the adjacent carbon atoms on the thiazoline nucleus.
• K
• the quaternary salt in combination with the adjacent nitrogen atom on the thiazolinenucleus forms a covalent quaternary salt having no hydrogen atom attached to the nitrogen atom.
• the quaternary salt can include an electro-negative group such an inner salt such as is illustrated by the quaternary salt 7 group or alkyl quaternary salts including an anion or negatively charged ion such as a chloride ion, a perchlorate ion, a
• -p-toluenesulfonate ion or the like such as illustrated by the quaternary salt group GB I
• Other useful thiol precursors useful in my process are 7 .as sulfonate, carboxylic acid groups or the like to form a sion, or they'can be added to the emulsion in the form of July 30, 1957.
• the solvent should be selected so that. it has no harmful eifect upon the emulsion in accordance with usual practice, and generally solvents or diluents which are miscible with water are to be preferred.
• the subject sensitizers can be dissolved in solvents, such as ethanol, acetone, pyridine, N,N-dimethylformamide, etc., and added to the emulsion in this form.
• solvents such as ethanol, acetone, pyridine, N,N-dimethylformamide, etc.
• the emulsions of the invention can also contain chemical sensitizers other than those of the invention;
• the emulsions can be treated with salts of the noble metals such as ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, iridium and platinum.
• Representative compounds are ammonium chloropalladate, potassium chloroplatinate, and sodium chloropalladite, which are used for sensitizing in amounts below that which produces any substantial for inhibition, as described in Smith and Trivelli U.S. Patent 2,448,060, issued August 31, 1948, and 'as antifoggants in higher amounts, as described in Trivelli and Smith US. Patents 2,566,245, issued August 28, 1951, and 2,566,263, issued August 28, 1951.
• the emulsions can also contain:sensitizing amounts of gold salts as described in Waller et al.
• Suitable compounds are potassium 'chloroaurite, potassium aurithiocyanate, potassium chloroaurate, auric tri+ chloride and 2-aurosulfobcnzothiazole 'methochloride.
• the emulsions can be also contain sensitizing amounts of reducing agents such as. stannous salts described in Carroll U.S. Patent 2,487,850, issued November 15, 1949, polyamines, such as diethylene triamine described in Lowe and Jones U.S. Patent 2,518,698, issued August 15, 1950, polyamines, such as spermine described Lowe and Allen U.S. Patent 2,521,925, issued September .12, 1950, or
• the addenda of the invention can added to the emulsion g before the final digestion or after-ripening, or they can lbe added immediately prior to the coating.
• the addenda of the invention can be added to photographic emulsions using any of the Well-known techniques in emulsion making. For example, they can be dissolved a suitable solventand added to the silver halide emuh scribed in Lowe and Jones U.S. Patent 2,521,926,issued September 12, 1950.
• the emulsions can also be optically sensitized with cyanine and merocyanine dyes, such as those described in Brooker U.S. Patents 1,846,301, issued February 23, 1932; 1,846,302, issued February 23, 1932; and 1,942,854,
• the emulsions of the invention cancontain such stabilizing compounds as the mercury compounds of Allen, Byers, and Murray U.S. Patent 2,728,663,'issued December 27, 1955 ;'Carroll and Murray U.S. Patent 2,728,664, issued December 27, 1955; and Leubner and Murray U.S. Patent 2,728,665, issued December 27, 1955; the triazoles of Heimbach and Kelly U.S. Patent 2,444,608, issued July 6, 1948; the azaindenes of Heimbach and Kelly U.S. Patents 2,444,605 and 2,444,606, issued July 6, 1948; Heimbach U.S. Patents 2,444,607, issued July 6, 1948 and 2,450,397, issued September 28, 1948; Heimbach and Clark U.S. Patent 2,444,609, issued July 6, 1948; Allen and Reynolds U.S. Patents 2,713,541, issued'July 19,1955
• the emulsions can contain a suitable gelatin plasticizer such as glycerin; a dihydroxy alkane such as 1,5-pentane diol as described in Milton and Murray U.S. Patent 2,960,- 404, issued November 15, 1960; an ester of an ethylene bis-glycolic acid such as ethylene bis(methyl glycolate) as described in Milton U.S. Patent 2,904,434, issued September 15, 1959; bis(ethoxy diethylene glycol) succinate as described in Gray U.S.
• a suitable gelatin plasticizer such as glycerin
• a dihydroxy alkane such as 1,5-pentane diol as described in Milton and Murray U.S. Patent 2,960,- 404, issued November 15, 1960
• an ester of an ethylene bis-glycolic acid such as ethylene bis(methyl glycolate) as described in Milton U.S. Patent 2,904,434, issued September 15, 1959
• bis(ethoxy diethylene glycol) succinate as described in Gray U.S.
• Patent 2,940,854 issued June 14, 1960, or a polymeric hydrosol as results from the emulsion polymerization of a mixture of an amide of an acid of the acrylic acid series, an acrylic acid ester and a styrene-type compound as described in Tong U.S. Patent 2,852,386, issued September 16, 1958.
• the plasticizer can be added to the emulsion before or after the addition of a sensitizing dye, if used.
• the emulsion can be hardened with any suitable hardener for gelatin such as formaldehyde; a halogen-substituted aliphatic acid such as mucobromic acid as described in White U.S. Patent 2,080,019, issued May 11, 1937; a compound having a plurality of acid anhydride groups such as 7,8-diphenylbicyclo(2,2,2)-7-octene-2,3,5,6-tetra- 2,726,162, issued December 6, 1955; 1,3-dihydroxyrnethylbenzimidazol-Z-one as described in July, Knott and Pollak U.S.
• any suitable hardener for gelatin such as formaldehyde
• a halogen-substituted aliphatic acid such as mucobromic acid as described in White U.S. Patent 2,080,019, issued May 11, 1937
• a compound having a plurality of acid anhydride groups such as 7,8-diphenylbicyclo(2,2,
• Patent 2,732,316 issued January 24, 1956; a dialdehyde or a sodium bisulfite derivative thereof, the aldehyde groups of which are separated by 2-3 carbon atoms, such as fi-methylglutaraldehyde bis-sodium bisulfite; a bisaziridine carboxamide such as trimethylene bis (l-azin'dine carboxamide) as described in Allen and Webster U.S. Patent 2,950,197, issued August 23, 1960; or 2,3-dihydroxy dioxane as described in Jefifreys U.S. Patent 2,870,013, issued January 20, 1957.
• a dialdehyde or a sodium bisulfite derivative thereof the aldehyde groups of which are separated by 2-3 carbon atoms, such as fi-methylglutaraldehyde bis-sodium bisulfite
• a bisaziridine carboxamide such as trimethylene bis (l-azin'dine carboxamide) as described in Allen and Webster U.S. Patent 2,
• the emulsions can contain a coating aid such as sapomin; a lauryl or oleoyl monoether of polyethylene glycol as described in Knox and Davis US. Patent 2,831,766, issued April 22, 1958; a salt of a sulfated and alkylated polyethylene glycol ether as described in Knox and Davis U.S. Patent 2,719,087, issued September 27, 1955; an acylated alkyl taurine such as the sodium salt of N-oleoyl- N-methyl taurine as described in Knox, Twardokus and Davis U.S.
• a coating aid such as sapomin
• a lauryl or oleoyl monoether of polyethylene glycol as described in Knox and Davis US. Patent 2,831,766, issued April 22, 1958
• a salt of a sulfated and alkylated polyethylene glycol ether as described in Knox and Davis U.S. Patent 2,719,087, issued September 27, 1955
• Patent 2,739,891 issued March 27, 1956; the reaction product of a dianhydride of tetr'acarboxybutane with an alcohol or an aliphatic amine containing from 8 to 18 carbon atoms which is treated with a base, for example, the sodium salt of the monoester of tetracarboxybutane as described in Knox, Stenberg and Wilson U.S. Patent 2,843,487, issued July 15, 1958; a Water-soluble maleopimarate or a mixture of a water-soluble maleopimarate and a substituted glutamate salt as described in Knox and Fowler U.S.
• Patent 2,823,123 issued February 11, 1958; an alkali metal salt of a substituted amino acid such as disodium N-(carbo-p-tert.octylphenoxypenta-
• a substituted amino acid such as disodium N-(carbo-p-tert.octylphenoxypenta-
• they are also useful in X-ray and other non-optically sensitized emulsions. They can be added to the emulsion before or after any optical sensitizing dyes which may be used.
• Various silversalts can be used as the sensitive salt such as silver bromide, silver iodide, silver chloride, or mixed silver halides such as silver chlorobromide or silver brornoiodide.
• the subject addenda can be used in emulsions intended for color photography, for example, emulsions containing colorforming couplers or emulsions to be developed by solutions containing couplers or other color-generating mate rials, emulsions of the mixed-packet type, such as described in Godowsky U.S. Patent 2,698,794, issued January 4, 1955, or emulsions of the mixed-grain type, such as described in Carroll and Hanson U.S. Patent 2,592,243, issued April 8, 1952.
• the subject addenda can also be used in emulsions which form latent images predominantly on the surface of the silver halide crystal or in emulsions which form latent images predominantly inside the silver halide crystal, such as those described in Davey and Knott U.S, Patent 2,592,250, issued April 8, 1952.
• the subject addenda can also be used in emulsions intended for use in diffusion transfer processes which utilize the undeveloped silver halide in the non-image areas of the negative to form a positive by dissolving the unde veloped silver halide and precipitating it on a receiving layer in close proximity to the original silver halide emulsion layer.
• diffusion transfer processes which utilize the undeveloped silver halide in the non-image areas of the negative to form a positive by dissolving the unde veloped silver halide and precipitating it on a receiving layer in close proximity to the original silver halide emulsion layer.
• Patent 2,352,014 issued June 20, 1944, and Land U.S.
• Patents 2,584,029 issued January 29, 1952; 2,608,236, issued December 28, 1954, and 2,543,181, issued February 27, 1951.
• the addenda of the invention can also be used in color transfer processes which utilize the diffusion transfer of an imagewise distribution of developer, coupler or dye, from a light-sensitive layer to a second layer, While the two layers are in close proximity to one another. Color processes of this type are described in Land U.S. Patents 2,559,643, issued July 10, 1951, and 2,698,798, issued January 4, 1955; Land and Rogers Belgian Patents 554,933 and 554,934, granted August 12, 1957; International Polaroid Belgian Patents 554,212, granted July 16, 1957, and 554,935, granted August 12, 1957; and Yutzy U.S. Patent 2,756,142, issued July 24, 1956.
• gelatin In the preparation of the silver halide dispersions employed for preparing silver halide emulsions, there can be employed as the dispersing agent for the silver halide in its preparation, gelatin or some other colloidal material such as colloidal albumin, a cellulose derivative, or a synthetic resin, for instance, a polyvinyl compound, although gelatin is preferred.
• colloidal albumin colloidal albumin
• a cellulose derivative a cellulose derivative
• synthetic resin for instance, a polyvinyl compound
• Some colloids which can be used as polyvinyl alcohol or a hydrolyzed polyvinyl acetate as described in Lowe U.S. Patent 2,286,215, issued Iune 16, 1942; a far hydrolyzed cellulose ester such as cellulose acetate hydrolyzed to an acetyl content of 1926% as described in U.S.
• Patent 2,768,154 issued October 23, 1956; or containing cyano-acetyl groups such as the vinyl alcoholvinyl cyanoacetate copolymer as described in Unruh, Smith and Priest U.S. Patent 2,808,331, issued October 1, 1957; or a polymeric material which results from polymerizing a protein or a saturated acylated protein with a monomer having a vinyl group as described in 3,189,45 v 11 r 12 r 'Illin gsWorth, Dann and Gates- US. Patent 2,852,382, ner in an Eastman Ib Sensitometer and thereafter by deissued September 19, 1958.
• cyano-acetyl groups such as the vinyl alcoholvinyl cyanoacetate copolymer as described in Unruh, Smith and Priest U.S. Patent 2,808,331, issued October 1, 1957; or a polymeric material which results from polymerizing a protein or a saturated acylated protein with a monomer having a vinyl group as described in 3,189
• compatible miX- veloping the exposed strips for 4 minutes at 68 Fiin a tures of two or more of these colloids can be employed photographic developer having the following formula: for dispersing the silver halide in its preparation.
• v V G The above-described emulsions used in'my process can 5 N methyl p aminophenol Sulfate be coated on a wide variety of supports 1n accordance Hydroquincne 8 with usual practice.
• photographic gelatino-silver bromide emulsion digesting when combinations of elementalsulfur' or a sulfur pre-- the. emulsion for 20 minutes at 52 C. immediately prior cursor and a thiol precursor are. added to photographic to coating, and then coating the emulsion on a cellulose j v r hallde emulsions, a substantially increased speed acetate film support at a coverage of 355 mg. of silver 5 1S imparted to the 611111151011- and. 840 mg. of gelatin per square foot. Elemental sul- EXAMPLE 2 v and the. thlol N P A photographic gelatino-silver bro-moiodide (6.
• Control- -1 2) 0.0015 g. sulfur 100. .14 .34 3) 0.0015 g. su1fur+0.03 g. p-tolylthiol- 380 14 32 4) 0.0015 g. sulfur+0.09 g. p-tolylthiol 398 07 13 5) 0.0015 g. suliur+0.9 g
• sio ns with the subject synergistic combinations of elemental sulfur and organic thiols or their precursors result in emulsions having substantially increased sensi-
• the data in the table also demonstrates that such increased sensitivities or speeds'are not accompanied by undesirable fog levels that oftentimes accompany increased sensitization.
• the process for sensitizing a photographic silver comprises, incorporating in said i emulsion:
• a process for sensitizing a photographic silver halide emulsion which comprises incorporating in said emulsion at least .0001 gram per mole of silver halide in said emulsion of elemental sulfur and at least .001 gram per mole of silver halide in said emulsion of a sulfur-containing compound capable of forming an organic thiol in said emulsion selected from the group consisting of a thiazole and a thiazoline.
• a process for sensitizing a photographic silver halide emulsion which comprises incorporating in said emulsion at least .0001 gram per mole of silver halide in said emulsion of elemental sulfur and at least .001 gram per mole of silver halide in said emulsion of a sulfur-containing compound having a formula selected from the group consistin g of I C-NHz,
• R R R 7 and R are selectedfr'om 'thegroup consisting of a hydrogen atom and a hydrocarbon radical; R and R are each selected fromthe group consisting of a hydrogen'atorn, a hydrocarbon radical, a hydrocarbon radical containing"a"hydroxylgroup, and together the necessary carbon "and hydrogen atoms to form an aryl radical and K, in combination with the adjacent nitro- 78.
• a process for sensitizingfa' 15h tofg'ra emulsion' which, comprises incorporating int o saidfemulsion at least 000 1fgram per mole ofLsilvenha'lide in said 'emulsionbf elemental sulfur and'at least 1.001"gram'per "mole of silver halide in said ejmulsion of a sulfur-containing compound having the roman BS--ASB V wherein A is analkyle'ne ra ian 511a j isja giei'dq' radical.
• A"process for sensitizing a photographic gelatino- 'silver halide emulsionf which comprises incorporating in said emulsion at least '.0001 gram per mole of silver halide in said emulsion of elemental sulfur and at least .001
• a processifor sensitizing a photographic gelatino- "silver halide emulsion which comprises incorpofatiriginto s'aid emulsion at least .0001 gramper mole of silver halide in said emulsion of elemental sulfur and least .001 gram per mole of silver ⁇ halideinsa'id emulsion of a sulfur-containing compound having the formula 1? RCH-CH CR wherein R is an aryl radical.
• a process for sensitizing a photographic gelatinosilver halide emulsion which comprises incorporating in said emulsion at least .0001 gram per mole of silver halide in said emulsion of elemental sulfur and at least .001 gram per mole of silver halide in said emulsion of a sulfurcontaining compound having the formula wherein R and R are selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom and together the necessary carbon and hydrogen atoms to form an aryl radical; R is an alkyl radical; and, K, in combination with the adjacent nitrogen atom, is a quaternary salt group.
• a process for sensitizing a gelatino-silver halide emulsion which comprises incorporating into said emulsion at least .0001 gram per mole of silver halide in said emulsion of elemental sulfur and at least .001 gram per mole of silver halide in said emulsion of a sulfur-containing compound having the formula wherein n is an integer of l to 4 and E is selected from the group consisting of a carboxyl radical, a sulfonate radical and an amino radical, E being other than a carboxyl radical when n is 2.
• a process for sensitizing a photographic gelatinosilver halide emulsion which comprises incorporating into said emulsion at least .0001 gram per mole of silver halide in said emulsion of elemental sulfur and at least .001
• Y 15 The process for sensitizing a photographic gelatinosilver halide emulsion which comprises incorporating into said emulsion at least .0001 gram per mole of silver halide in, said emulsion'of' elemental sulfur and at least .001
• ethane bis (isothiouronium bromide) i 18.
• the process for sensitizing a photographic gelatinoj silver halide emulsion which comprises incorporating into i said emulsion at'least .0001 gram per mole of silver halide in said emulsion of elemental sulfur and at least .001 gram gram per mole of silver halide in said emulsion ofjasulfur-containing compound having the iforinula and at least .001 gram per mole of silver halide in said A V emulsion of an organic thiolhaving theiformula RSHQ per mole of silver halide in saidemulsion of ibenzylm ercaptam 3 i i 119.
• the process for sensitizing photographic gelatinosilver halide emulsions which comprises incorporating into said emulsion at least .0001 gram per mole of silver halide in said emulsionof dithiodimorpholine and at least- .001 gramper'mole of silver halide. in said emulsion of N- methylbenzothiazolium methosulfate;
• a photographic silver halide emulsion containing a sensitizer combination comprising at least .0001 gram per' mole of silver halide in said emulsion of elemental sulfur and at least .001 gram per mole of silver halide in, said .7
• a photographic silver halide emuls'ion containing a .sensitizer combination comprisingat least .0001 gram per:
• a photographic silver halide emulsion containing a sensitizer combinaiton comprising at least .0001 gram per mole of silver'halide'in said emulsion of element sulfur and at least .OOlgrarn per mole of silver halide in said emulsion of N-methylbenzothiazolium methosulfate.

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