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Quantitative Paper Chromatography

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Fisher, Parsons and Morrison1, discussing quantitative paper chromatography, found an interesting relationship between spot-length or spot area and the logarithm of spot content for certain amino-acids and the sugars xylose and arabinose. They suggest that the relationship may be of general applicability to sugars.

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  1. Fisher, R. B., Parsons, D. S., and Morrison, G. A., Nature, 161, 764 (1948).

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FOWLER, H. Quantitative Paper Chromatography. Nature 168, 1123–1124 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/1681123b0

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