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IN a recent book,1 one of us (H. T. B.) has pointed out that water deprived of trihydrol would be quite useless to living organisms. This suggestion has been supported by experimental results,2 which demonstrate that water rich in trihydrol obtained from melted ice will sustain filaments of the alga Spirogyra in a normal condition for several days, in contrast to filaments maintained under the same external conditions in water from the same source containing a lower proportion of polymerised molecules; in this dihydrol water the protoplasts soon shrink and the filaments become quite limp, due to loss of turgor.
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Barnes, Howard T., "Ice Engineering" Renouf. Pub. Co., Montreal, 1928.
Barnes, T. Cunliffe, Proc. U.S. Nat. Acad., 18, 136, 1932.
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BARNES, H., BARNES, T. Biological Effect of Associated Water Molecules. Nature 129, 691 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129691b0
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