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THERE appears to be a growing amount of misunderstanding about the different hypotheses so far offered in the endeavour to account for the accumulation of ions by living cells. As an example I quote from a recent paper by Asprey1: “It is noteworthy that Briggs2 has advanced a theory, thermodynamically sound, showing how the accumulation of solutes in the cells of Valonia and Nitella can be explained” This not only affirms the adequacy of Briggs's explanation, but also accepts his supposed proof that previously proposed theories are thermodynamically unsound. Neither proposition is correct.
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Asprey, G. F., Proc. Roy. Soc., B, 112, 451–72 1933.
Briggs, G. E., ibid., 107, 248–69 1930.
Brooks, S. C., Protoplasma, 8, 339–412 1929.
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BROOKS, S. Accumulation of Ions by Living Cells. Nature 132, 97–98 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132097b0
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