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WITH reference to the recent publication, by Penney and Zilva1, on "The Chemical Behaviour of Dehydroascorbic Acid in vitro and in vivo", I wish to direct attention to my paper "On the Methylene Blue Reducing System of Palestine Orange Peels"2, the conclusions of which, arrived at by a different method, are supported by the results of the above authors.
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FRANKENTHAL, L. Role of Phosphate in the Methylene Blue Reduction by Dehydroascorbic Acid. Nature 153, 255 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153255a0
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