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Interaction of Starch with Iodine

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THE investigation recorded here is a theoretical re-examination of the potentiometric estimation of iodine affinity to starch fractions1,2. Our approach is a slight modification of that developed by Klotz3 in his work on binding of salts to proteins, as simplified by Tanford4.

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ELIASSAF, J., LEWIN, M. Interaction of Starch with Iodine. Nature 201, 1023–1024 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2011023a0

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