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X-Ray Interferences of Barium Sulphate in Fungi and Algae

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IN a paper on the constitution of cell walls of fungi, R. Frey1 concludes that several fungi and algae show in their cell contents or membranes an inorganic substance with an X-ray diagram corresponding to that of barium sulphate. Since, in our researches on. cell-walls of fungi2,3, X-ray interferences suggesting the presence of that substance were never observed, some further work was done in order to check Frey's statements.

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  2. Houwink, A. L., and Kreger, D. R., “Antonie van Leeuwenhoek”, 19 (1953).

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KREGER, D. X-Ray Interferences of Barium Sulphate in Fungi and Algae. Nature 180, 867–868 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/180867b0

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