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THE INFLUENCE OF SIZE, SHAPE AND CONDUCTIVITY OF MICROSCOPICALLY VISIBLE PARTICLES ON CATAPHORETIC MOBILITY
1Laboratory of Research Medicine, Medical Clinic, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole.
The Journal of General Physiology
|October 30, 2009
Abstract:
The electrophoretic mobility of microscopically visible particles is independent of size, shape and conductivity of the particle within the limits of the experimental error. This is valid for extreme variations in size, shape and conductivity.
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