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FREEZING is widely used by biologists and chemists for the purpose of slowing or stopping reactions. In the past few years we and others have shown that freezing can accelerate a number of catalysed reactions, including hydrolysis, aminolysis, dehydration, oxidation arid peroxide decomposition1–7.
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GRANT, N., ALBURN, H. Acceleration of Enzyme Reactions in Ice. Nature 212, 194 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/212194a0
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