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Excerpt from The Dynamics of Surfaces: An Introduction to the Study of Biological Surface Phenomena
The forces which are localised in surfaces play a much greater part in biological processes than has previously been suspected, and the recognition of this fact has recently spread very rapidly over biological literature. On the one hand, the accumulation of facts proceeds rapidly, while on the other hand, the theoretical treat ment of surface reactions is developing extremely slowly. The theoretical development is naturally concerned in the first place with the simplest conditions, and cannot be extended without modification to bio logical problems. The biological data, on the contrary, 'are generally obtained under very complicated, and to some extent fundamentally different, conditions. The best illustration of this fact is the confusion which has become associated with the idea of adsorption, 'owing to the assumption that the theory of purely mechanical adsorption could be extended to biological processes, in which, as a matter of fact, it does not apply.
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