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ONE of us (A.A.V.), who had recently been studying channel models for electrical fluctuations caused by potassium transport through nerve membrane, noticed a possible analogy with the flow pattern of grain through an hourglass of unusual shape designed by F. Vaudan, Paris. The hourglass was filled with small grains (0.1 to 1.0 mm diameter) of coloured glass and differed from ordinary hourglasses in the length of the pore connecting the two compartments which was drawn out to about 25 cm; about 80 times the smallest inner diameter (3 mm). When the hourglass was turned, the grain did not flow steadily but exhibited slow irregular density fluctuations (Fig. 1). With a view to the analogy with potassium channels in excitable membranes, we decided to examine comparative power spectra1–3.
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SCHICK, K., VERVEEN, A. 1/f noise with a low frequency white noise limit. Nature 251, 599–601 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/251599a0
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