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IN view of Gaffron and Wohl's1 general discussion of the photosynthetic mechanism of the green plant, the following unpublished, supporting experiment, carried out last spring at Harvard by W. A. Arnold and me, is of interest.
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KOHN, H. Number of Chlorophyll Molecules acting as an Absorbing Unit in Photosynthesis. Nature 137, 706 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137706a0
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