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Science 15 May 1959:
Vol. 129. no. 3359, pp. 1365 - 1366
DOI: 10.1126/science.129.3359.1365
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An Explanation of the Liesegang Phenomenon

C. J. VAN OSS 1 and P. HIRSCH-AYALON 2

1 Van't Hoff Laboratory, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
2 Central Institute for Nutrition Research, Utrecht

Periodic band precipitation in porous media is explained by means of the Hirsch effect (specific semipermeability of the precipitate occurring only as long as both the precipitate-forming ions are present). The possibility of getting Liesegang bands in immunological precipitates is underlined, and a suggestion is made how to avoid them.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Liesegang Phenomenon.
K. H. STERN (1959)
Science 130, 726
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