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THE correspondence in NATURE of June 17 and July 22 by Dr. Cramer and Drs. E. F. and H. E. Armstrong on the possibility of the enzymic action of invertase being limited by surface tension, has led me to look up the laboratory records of some experiments which I made in 1892 on a cognate subject. I was at that time engaged in studying the formation of starch granules in various parts of the living plant, and the subsequent dissolution of the granules under the action of the cell enzymes.
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BROWN, H. Surface Tension and Ferment Action. Nature 95, 616–617 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095616b0
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