Quantitative laws in biological chemistry / by Svante Arrhenius.

  • Arrhenius, Svante, 1859-1927.
Date:
1915
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Credit: Quantitative laws in biological chemistry / by Svante Arrhenius. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and thereafter a fiat maximum. Every particle of carbon decomposes a certain quantity of lysin in unit time, independently of its concentration. Here it is difficult to suppose that the carbon-particles enter into compounds with the lysin. Probably the ex- planation is that the decomposed lysin forms a covering of the particles, and that this covering Fig. 6. diffuses away, giving place for new lysin-molecules at a certain rate nearly independent of the concentra- tion of the solution. The velocity of decomposition is proportional to the number of carbon-particles, which regularity is easily understood. Fig. 6 gives a graphic representation of the value K^. io6. The problem of this kind which has attracted the greatest interest among biochemists is that of digestion. As is natural, most experiments on that