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THE formation of the Scottish Seaweed Research Association last year stimulates one to inquire into the somewhat chequered history of what is known as the kelp industry. At one time this assumed considerable importance in Europe and afterwards spread to the United States and Japan, the last-named country producing in 1929 some 7 per cent of the world's iodine entirely from seaweeds. The word 'kelp' itself properly refers to the burnt ash of seaweed, but has since been extended to include the living plants.
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CHAPMAN, V. The Kelp Trade. Nature 155, 673–674 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155673a0
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