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IN a recent communication in Nature1, Dr. P. George described manometric experiments which showed a rapid initial decay of the enzyme compared with which the well-known decay due to irreversible destruction was so slow that the rate became almost steady. These experiments were carried out with rather high concentrations of hydrogen peroxide.
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LEMBERG, R., FOULKES, E. Reaction between Catalase and Hydrogen Peroxide. Nature 161, 131–132 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161131a0
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