THE THERMIC EFFECT OF DEATH

The thermic effect of death as observed on yeast is about 2 gm. calories per gram of dry substance and is therefore very small as compared with the heat produced in most of the exotherm chemical reactions. As the chemical compounds composing living matter have a very great molecular weight, the deco...

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Autor principal: Lepeschkin, W. W.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Rockefeller University Press 1929
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2323730/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19872463
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description The thermic effect of death as observed on yeast is about 2 gm. calories per gram of dry substance and is therefore very small as compared with the heat produced in most of the exotherm chemical reactions. As the chemical compounds composing living matter have a very great molecular weight, the decomposition of their molecule which brings about death produces more heat than the decomposition of the molecule of some explosive substances. This explains the great instability of the principal compounds of living matter.
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spelling pubmed-23237302008-04-23 THE THERMIC EFFECT OF DEATH Lepeschkin, W. W. J Gen Physiol Article The thermic effect of death as observed on yeast is about 2 gm. calories per gram of dry substance and is therefore very small as compared with the heat produced in most of the exotherm chemical reactions. As the chemical compounds composing living matter have a very great molecular weight, the decomposition of their molecule which brings about death produces more heat than the decomposition of the molecule of some explosive substances. This explains the great instability of the principal compounds of living matter. The Rockefeller University Press 1929-01-20 /pmc/articles/PMC2323730/ /pubmed/19872463 Text en Copyright © Copyright, 1929, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research This article is distributed under the terms of an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike–No Mirror Sites license for the first six months after the publication date (see http://www.rupress.org/terms). After six months it is available under a Creative Commons License (Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 4.0 Unported license, as described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
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