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IT has not been definitely settled whether optical sensitizing involves a chemical decomposition of the dye. The observation of Lescynski1 that some twenty atoms of silver could be obtained (for a certain exposure) for one dye molecule indicated that either a physical transfer of energy is effected, or else a chain reaction, with regeneration of the dye molecule.
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Lescynski, W., Z. wiss. Phot., 24, 261 (1926–27).
Bokinik, J. I., and Iljina, Z. A., Acta physicochimica, U.R.S.S., 3, 383 (1935).
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SHEPPARD, S., LAMBERT, R. & WALKER, R. Mechanism of Optical Sensitizing of Silver Halides by Dyes. Nature 140, 1096–1097 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/1401096a0
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