A Series of Abnormal Liesegang Stratifications.
A Series of Abnormal Liesegang Stratifications.
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一系列异常的 Liesegang 分层。
DOI:
10.1042/bj0140418
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发表时间:
1920
影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
E. Hatschek
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作者:
E. Hatschek
THE experiments described in the present paper represent preliminary work for an investigation in which it was necessary to produce Liesegang stratifications in gelatin specimens having volumes up to 300 cc. and completely submerged in the aqueous solution of the one component. It was therefore desirable to employ a material less expensive than silver nitrate and, for reasons apart from the cost, to produce in thegelatin a precipitate more closely corresponding to some of the mineral constituents of organic structures. I accordingly determined to study the deposition of calcium phosphate in gelatin gel., The reaction between alkaline phosphates and calcium nitrate has been, used by StephaneLeduc [1911]. He used Liesegang's procedure, which con-sists in placing a drop of the solution of one reaction component on a film of gelatin gel containing the other, and obtained stratifications of such fineness that they acted as a diffraction grating. It has been shown conclusively by Liesegang that this effect is dueto wrinkling of the surface of the gel [1913]. This particular effect would have been useless for my purpose, which was to produce stratifications extending through a considerable depth of gel, and I accordingly studied the reaction in test tubes. This procedure isnow well known: a test tube is partly filled with the sol containing one of the components in suitable concentration, the sol is allowed to set completely, and the aqueous solution of the other component-which must, in all cases, have a molar concentration greatly in excess of that in the gel-poured on. After some preliminary experiments, which it is not necessary to describe in detail, it was found that the best results were obtained with gels containing 10 g. of gelatin in 100 cc. of trisodium phosphate solution, the concentration of the latter being 3, 2-5 or 2% of the crystallised salt (Na3PO4. 12H20, ie respectively 7-87, 6-57 and 5-26 millimoles of Na3PO4), on which were placed solutions of calcium chloride, calcium nitrate or mixtures of calcium chloride and sodium chloride. The use of such mixtures, one constituent of which takes no part in the reaction, is a well known device for reducing the con-centration of the reacting constituent, while keeping the total molar concen-tration-which settles the rate of diffusion into the gel-sufficiently high.