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DIAPHANOL (a 50 per cent solution of glacial acetic acid saturated with chlorine dioxide) has been much used since its recommendation by Schulze1 as a reagent for softening and bleaching arthropod cuticles. Its precise action, however, seems never to have been critically studied.
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KENNAUGH, J. Action of Diaphanol on Arthropod Cuticles. Nature 180, 238 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/180238a0
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