Cerium nitrate paper sensitizer

[rexp2]

While doing some unrelated work researching rare earth elements, I came across a reference to reversal paper sensitization based on cerous nitrate developed with phenol.

https://books.google.com/books?id=W...e&q=cerium nitrate phenol photography&f=false

While I am working my way through the original citation which is in french: A. & L. Lumiere, Compte Rendu [116] 574f (1893), I am curious if this has been realistically tried.

 

[AgX]

Your quotation is not accessible in Germany.

 

[Ian Grant]

Google books is fairly useless unfortunately.

Cerium can be used to help stabilise emulsions and is one of a number of elements that can be used as small additions to control how an emulsion behaves.

Ian