Thermographic recording material with improved image tone and/or stability upon thermal development

摘要

A recording material comprising a support and a thermosensitive element containing silver behenate, an organic reducing agent therefor in thermal working relationship therewith and a binder, wherein the silver behenate is not associated with mercury and/or lead ions and when the recording material is irradiated with a copper K alpha 1 X-ray source the ratio, normalized to a quantity of silver in the recording material of 1 g per m2 thereof, of the sum of the peak heights of the X-ray diffraction lines attributable to silver behenate at Bragg angles, 2 THETA , of 6.01 DEG , 7.56 DEG , 9.12 DEG , 10.66 DEG , 12.12 DEG and 13.62 DEG to the sum of the peak heights of the X-ray diffraction lines at Bragg angles, 2 THETA , of 25.60 DEG , 35.16 DEG and 43.40 DEG of NIST standard 1976, rhombohedral Al2O3, determined with the same X-ray diffractometer in the same state of adjustment, is greater than 0.85; production processes for particles of substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt comprising silver behenate with these X-ray characteristics in the presence and substantial absence of organic solvent.