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Open AccessThe transport of liquids in softwood: timber as a model porous medium
Timber is the only widely used construction material we can grow. The wood from which it comes has evolved to provide structural support for the tree and to act as a conduit for fluid flow. These flow paths ar...
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A kilonova as the electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational-wave source
Observations and modelling of an optical transient counterpart to a gravitational-wave event and γ-ray burst reveal that neutron-star mergers produce gravitational waves and radioactively powered kilonovae, an...
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Senescence Retardation in Dock Leaves by Soluble Peptone
MEASUREMENTS of chlorophyll breakdown in isolated leaf disks have shown that senescence is retarded by application of several different growth stimulators1, including cytokinins and gibberellins, which differ mar...
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Relative Activity of Gibberellins and their Derivatives on Barley
GIBBERELLIC acid (gibberellin A3) (I) is used extensively in the malting industry to accelerate the germination of barley (see Briggs1 for review), but there seems to be no mention of the use of other gibberellin...
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A Solvent for the Paper Chromatographic of Separation of Glucose and Sorbitol
GLUCOSE and sorbitol can be separated by chromatography in 7 hr. by means of a solvent mixture which is composed of nine parts (by of vol.)ethyl methyl ketone, one part glacial acetic and one part of water sat...