1) Several types of suspensions were prepared by addition, over a period of 30 seconds, of silver nitrate and potassium bromide solutions containing excess bromide (previously adjusted to pH 3.5-10.5) by double jets system and then ripened for 128 minutes.
The kinetics of crystal growth was studied by turbidimetric measurements and silver bromide crystals obtained after ripening were examined by optical micrography.
Visual observations indicated that the shape of crystals changed by variations in pH of gelatin solutions.For example, in low pH suspensions (pH 3. 5), thin, flat and well shaped triangular, (or hexagonal) crystals formed 90 per cent of total, and residua were poly-hedral and steric crystals. On the contrary, in high pH (pH 10. 5), the former (well shaped crystals) formed only 10 per cent, Author belives that these differences due to the effect of changes in the nature of the protective gelatin layer. Namely, the ionic dissociation of low degree of amino groups of the gelatin at high pH causes to reduce the adsoption of the gelatin to crystals and then to promote the occurreuce of coalescence ripening.
2) A period of occurrence of “coalescence” was investigated.
The appearance of cryetals was observed in various four suspensions (I, II, III, IV) by the following experiment.
Type I suspension was ripend for 128 minutes at pH 8. 5, 3 minutes after mixing at pH 3.5
Type II was ripened for 128 minutes at pH 3.5 continiously after mixing at pH 3.5
Type III was ripened for 128 minutes at pH 3. 5, 3 minutes after mixing at pH 8.5
Type IV was ripened for 128 minutes at pH 8.5 continiously after mixing at pH 8.5
It was obtained that the percentage of flat crystals in Type I was nearly as same as in Type III, and then in Type III was nearly as same as in Type IV.
These results suggest that “coalescence” occures during and just after mixing, and as crystals grow over the critical size, no more “coalescence” occures.
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