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What is a Dialysate?

Nature volume 161, page 404 (1948)Cite this article

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IN Nature of November 22, 1947, p. 720, H. G. Derx has commented upon the confusion caused by the lack of a suitable name for the material retained by a dialysing membrane. He has proposed the use of the term ‘residue'. We have found the term ‘impercneate', coined by Dr. Howard Eder in our laboratories some years ago, a very descriptive and helpful one to apply to such material

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    ERIC G. BALL

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BALL, E. What is a Dialysate?. Nature 161, 404 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161404a0

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