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SOME recent reports on photoelectric effects in human bone by Becker and co-workers have been interpreted as evidence that bone exhibits semiconducting properties, including photoconductivity1,2. The present investigation leads to the conclusion that the effect of light on bone is simply heating, which is often difficult to distinguish from photoconductivity. The reported photoelectric effects1,2 can probably be attributed to such an “artefact”.
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Becker, R. O., and Brown, F. M., Nature, 206, 1325 (1965).
Becker, R. O., Bassett, C. A., and Bachman, C. H., in Proc. Intern. Symp. Biodynamics of Bone (Little, Brown and Co., 1964).
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SPRUCH, G., SHAMOS, M. Light Induced Effects in Bone. Nature 212, 1586–1587 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2121586a0
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