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As has been shown in this laboratory, the dielectric increment per gram per litre of desoxyribose nucleic acid in aqueous solution as sodium salt is proportional to molecular weight. Thus, enzymatic degradation of poly-desoxyribose nucleic acid by Kunitz's1 crystalline desoxyribonuclease (supplied by the Worthington Biochemical Laboratory, Freehold, New Jersey) may be followed by determinations of dielectric constant.
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JUNGNER, G., JUNGNER, I. & ALLGÉN, LG. Enzymatic Degradation of Desoxyribose Nucleic Acid by Crystalline Desoxyribonuclease. Nature 164, 1009 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/1641009a0
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