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IT is well known that living substance is in a labile state, its constructive or destructive metabolism being determined by minute changes, sometimes of temperature or pressure, sometimes of other dynamic conditions. But Mr. Geoffrey Martin's suggestion (NATURE, April 27, p. 609) that the lability is due to the great number of atoms in the molecules of living substance, or to the complex “carbon compounds” present, gives only a partial explanation.
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Report Brit. Assoc., 1896, p. 983; and Proc. Birmingham Nat. Hist. Hist. and Philos. Soc., 1899.
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ALLEN, F. The Critical Temperature and Pressure of Living Substances. Nature 72, 7–8 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/072007c0
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