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A Modified Pettenkoffer Tube

Nature volume 172, pages 817–818 (1953)Cite this article

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A MODIFICATION of the normal Pettenkoffer tube has been developed to save time and materials and at the same time ensure accuracy in the estimation of carbon dioxide evolved during soil respiration experiments. It has also proved of use in the study of the respiration of Aspergillus niger in work at this Station by Dr. D. J. D. Nicholas.

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GLEEN, H. A Modified Pettenkoffer Tube. Nature 172, 817–818 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/172817b0

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