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IN a recent review of radiochemical reactions, that is, reactions induced by α-particles and particularly by X-rays, Allsopp1 affirms the conclusion that in gaseous systems there is a great similarity between radiochemical and ordinary photochemical processes, and that their mechanisms are essentially the same. In solutions, however, where radiochemical reactions are of far greater biological importance, the situation is still rather obscure and is dominated by the very indefinite 'activated solvent' hypothesis. In view of the more recent work of Dale2 on the effect of X-rays on enzymes and biologically active substances in solution, the subject has become of renewed interest.
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WEISS, J. Radiochemistry of Aqueous Solutions. Nature 153, 748–750 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153748a0
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