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Differential respirometer of simplified and improved design
Science (New York, N.Y.)
|August 9, 1963
Abstract:
A differential respiromizeter, witli a single reference flask for multiple active flasks, and with improved digital readout (in microliters, 0 to 500) volumometers, and which eliminates the need for glassware calibration, is described.
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RESPIRATION
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