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The Organic Metabolism of Sea-water with Special Reference to the Ultimate Food Cycle in the Sea*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Ancel Keys
Affiliation:
From the Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
E. H. Christensen
Affiliation:
From the Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
August Krogh
Affiliation:
The Fatigue Laboratory, Harvard University.

Extract

Studies are reported of the behaviour of stored sea-water with regard to oxygen, ammonia, and bacteria content in relation to the conditions of storage and to the effect of various filtration procedures.

When sea-water is sterilised by filtration and stored in the dark, the oxygen content remains constant or diminishes only by less than 0·07c.c. per litre in several hundred hours.

In non-sterile experiments there is always an oxygen consumption roughly parallel to a bacterial multiplication which begins very suddenly after collection of the water. These effects are greatest in “raw” water, less in paper-filtered water and least in water which is doubly filtered.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1935

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