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Periodic (Liesegang) Precipitation of Chemicals

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LIESEGANG'S periodic precipitation of inorganic chemicals1 has yet to be explained adequately, possibly because experiments in gathering data to describe it have failed to recognize and control numerous complicating effects influencing it. Some of these are illustrated in the work reported here.

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GROWLE, A., LUEKER, D. & GASKILL, H. Periodic (Liesegang) Precipitation of Chemicals. Nature 199, 623–624 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/199623b0

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