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Surface Tension and Ferment Action

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MESSRS. BEARD AND CRAMER, in a paper under the above title published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society issued on June 1, describe experiments made with invertase with the object of determining âœwhether the action of a ferment on a substrate is affected by surface tension.â They answer this question in the affirmative and draw far-reaching conclusions.

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ARMSTRONG, E., ARMSTRONG, H. Surface Tension and Ferment Action. Nature 95, 425 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095425c0

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