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THE study of chlorophyll has great fascination; it also has its difficulties. We did not propose adding to the many elaborate attempts to isolate and purify this body; but the beauty and definite character of the spectrum which it gives induced us to try whether some insight into its character and constitution could not be obtained from the study of the spectroscopic changes which it can be made to undergo; and as one of us has already shown that in the case of the cobalt salts, the spectroscope enables us to follow many chemical changes, we thought that it might be possible to interpret the spectroscopic changes of chlorophyll, and so gain some knowledge of the properties and nature of this body.
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A Spectroscopic Study of Chlorophyll 1 . Nature 26, 636–639 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026636a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/026636a0