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IN a previous publication1 I have pointed out that the problem of the primary process of the effect of radiation on living objects is a question of the action of rays on the different colloidal systems of the living cell. Therefore the question arises whether it is necessary to assume a special colloidal-chemical theory for the biological action of radiation.
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ELLINGER, F. Colloids and the Biological Effect of Radiation. Nature 138, 1014–1015 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1381014a0
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