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Sorption of Fumigants

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WORK recently published by Lubatti1 and by Winteringham2 and experiments still in progress in the Imperial College seem to give some insight into the mechanism of the sorption of organic vapours, used as fumigants, on wheat.

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LUBATTI, O. Sorption of Fumigants. Nature 155, 577 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155577a0

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