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Thermodynamically Bound Water of Cotton Cellulose, Silk Fibroin, Wool Keratin and Insulin

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A SIMPLE method has been developed for measuring the bound water of solid natural polymers. In addition the upper 50 per cent of the total amount sorbed, a region that has been difficult to investigate1, has now become readily accessible to experiment.

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MORRISON, J. Thermodynamically Bound Water of Cotton Cellulose, Silk Fibroin, Wool Keratin and Insulin. Nature 198, 84–85 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/198084a0

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