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DURING recent years certain biochemical effects of polarised light as compared with ordinary light have been brought into prominence by Dr. Elizabeth Sidney Semmens (Journ. Soc. Chem. Ind., 42, 954, 1923; also Bri. Assoc. Rep., 1923). She has shown that the hydrolysis of starch proceeds with greater rapidity in polarised light than in ordinary light of the same intensity, all other conditions being identical.
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BHATNAGAR, S., LAL, R. Effects of Polarised Light on Bacterial Growth. Nature 117, 302 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117302a0
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