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The beauties of calorimetry

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This paper gives a short overview of direct and indirect calorimetric experiments to determine the heat production or at least the metabolic turnover of whole plants or their blossoms. A special emphasis is placed on thermogenic plants because of their high specific heat production rates equal to those of mammals or birds and sometimes even surpassing them.

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Lamprecht, I. The beauties of calorimetry. J Therm Anal Calorim 97, 7–10 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-008-9734-3

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