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  1. NLM Digital Collections - Chemistry, inorganic and organic : with experiments 
    Publication: Philadelphia : P. Blakiston, Son & Co., 1890
    ... them even fade during the life of the CHLOROPHYLL. 677 plant, as may be seen in some ... those which belong to the class of glucosides. Chlorophyll (from ffkwpos, green ; (frvWov, a leaf), the abundant ...
  2. ... of plants is princi- pally in the seed. Chlorophyll. This term is applied to the substance which ... admitted to these colorless structures, the secretion of chlorophyll begins and the plants acquire a green color. ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - A manual of bacteriology 
    Publication: Philadelphia : P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1898
    ... green owe their color to a substance called chlorophyll. Upon the properties of this substance one of ... Under the influence of sunlight, by means of chlorophyll, plants are able to use as food the ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - The biology of man and other organisms 
    Publication: New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1923]
    ... Greek for “leaf-color.” Through the agency of chlorophyll the leaf, or other green organ, has the ... molds, yeast, and bacteria. None of these have chlorophyll, and hence have no capacity to create food. ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - Civilization and the microbe 
    Publication: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923
    ... bacteria. Bacteria possess no green coloring mat- ter (chlorophyll), which in the plants, through the agency of ... soil, and, so far as known, the same chlorophyll in their leaves, and the same energy of ...
  6. ... excellent clearing agent. It dissolves starch, resin, protein, chlorophyll etc., and causes more or less expansion of ... are found small chloroplasts composed of protoplasm and chlorophyll. The kinetic energy of the sun’s rays is ...
  7. NLM Digital Collections - Manual of biological forms 
    Publication: New York : The Macmillan Company, 1923
    ... are present in all cells, in cells containing chlorophyll another important process takes place, known as photosynthesis, ... types like the Bacteria and Yeast, which, lacking chlorophyll, have to depend for their nutrition upon more ...
  8. ... insipid azotized matter, an excessively bitter resinous substance, chlorophyll, albumen, starch, saline matters, and lignin. The cold ... wax-like substance, soluble in ether, a little chlorophyll, quercitrin, a bitter crystallizable acid supposed to be ...
  9. ... insipid azotized matter, an excessively bitter resinous substance, chlorophyll, albumen, starch, saline matters, and lignin. The cold ... addition to which Mr. Kushton found fatty matter, chlorophyll, and salts of potassa, lime, and iron. Mr. ...
  10. ... insipid nitrogenous matter, an excessively bitter resinous substance, chlorophyll, albumen, starch, saline matters, and lignin ; malic and ... 3e ser., xxxii. 260.) All plants which contain chlorophyll have the power of using the chemical rays ...
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