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THE well-known analogy between the colloidal metallic catalysts and certain enzymes early suggested to us the inclusion of the latter in our survey of catalysts for the ionisation of hydrogen1, and the work of Stephenson and Stickland on “hydrogenase”2 indicated the most promising material for investigation. Work has now been in progress for some time on several strains of Bact. Coli and on Bact. Acidi Lactici, and we wish to make a preliminary report of our results—the more so as the announcement of a forthcoming paper by Hughes, Yudkin, Kemp and Rideal includes a brief reference to work which may be following parallel lines.
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CAVANAGH, B., HORIUTI, J. & POLANYI, M. Enzyme Catalysis of the Ionisation of Hydrogen. Nature 133, 797 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133797a0
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