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Some knowledge about the mechanism of ‘assimilation’ may probably be gleaned from a detailed picture of the atomic processes involved in the absorption of light in dissolved chlorophyll. As I have not been able to find sufficient quantitative data on this subject in the existing literature, I have made some rough measurements to this purpose.
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PRINS, J. Spectrum of Chlorophyll. Nature 134, 457–458 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134457a0
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