The effects of lead salt on extremely fine grain silver-bromide emulsions which were made with silver nitrate solutions containing 0-0.1 mol% lead nitrate (based on silver nitrate) were investigated. On the fine grain emulsions the effects of lead salt were different from those on the coarse grain emulsions reported in the 1 st. paper; that is, by addition of lead salt (0.004-0.02 mol%), (1) sensitivity to X-ray was increased about two fold, while (2) sensitivity to light was not affected and (3) sensitivity to
60Coγ-ray was slightly increased but the degree of increase in sensitivity was much less than that obtained in the 1 st. paper.
Two kinds of fused silver bromide crystals were made by melting precipitates prepared by using potassium bromide solutions and silver nitrate solutions containing no and 0.02 mol% lead nitrate respectively. By additon of lead salt:(1) sensitivity to light or X-ray was greatly decreased, and sensitizing effect to X-ray, such as obtained with emulsion, was not gained, and (2) the degree of solarization was decreased, which was the same result obtained in the 3 rd. paper.
It is supposed that the mobil silver ion which contributes to the ionic process of the latent image formation is not only the interstitial silver ion but slso the surface silver ion and so the dependence of the effect of lead salt on crystal size is caused by the difference of specific surface area.
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