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Note on the Condition of the Water in a Marine Aquarium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

W. R. G. Atkins
Affiliation:
Head of the Department of General Physiology at the Plymouth Laboratory

Extract

Somewhere about 1914 D. J. Matthews maintained the sea-water in the Plymouth aquarium tanks at a pH value close to that of the outside sea-water by the addition of suitable quantities of sodium carbonate.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1931

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