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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 05, 1997
Ming Jye Lin, Penfield, NY (US);
Kenneth J Lushington, Rochester, NY (US);
Frederick C Derks, Rochester, NY (US);
Joseph C Deaton, Rochester, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to an emulsion comprising tabular grains of greater than or equal to about 3.7 .mu.m area weighted mean equivalent circular diameter and thiourea sensitizer having the structural formula: ##STR1## wherein each of R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, and R.sub.4 independently can represent an alkylene, cycloalkylene, carbocyclic arylene or heterocyclic arylene, alarylene or aralkylene group; or taken together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 or R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 can complete a 5- to 7-member heterocyclic ring; and