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The behavior of the diffusion coefficient of a solute which can be adsorbed by a colloid only after the colloid has aggregated to a certain size is deduced on the basis of a few assumptions. Some relations of such a mechanism to cell reactions are indicated.
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Branson, H. Delayed adsorption and diffusion in colloidal media. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 4, 131–137 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02477943
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