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IN connexion with a recent letter by Lovelock1 on the use of organic acids, including a-hydroxyisobutyric acid, as aerial bactericides, some other observations on the properties of the latter acid may be of interest. Its non-assimilability by moulds has already been noted2, as well as its application to the preparation of buffers which resist the action of moulds3.
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Lovelock, J. E., Nature, 156, 782 (1945).
Ayres, G. B., and Tobie, W. C., J. Bact, 41, 43 (1941).
Tobie, W. C., and Ayres, G. B., J. Bact., 50, 333 (1945).
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TOBIE, W., AYRES, G. Action of a-Hydroxyisobutyric Acid on Micro-Organisms. Nature 157, 878–879 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157878b0
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