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ASYMMETRIC ANALYSIS 



Fig. 14) and for laevorotatory tartaric acid 9,700, in otlier 

 words, they were of the same order of magnitude. Sim- 

 ilar data were obtained also in experiments with the 

 brood of another species of fish, Platypoecilus maculatus 

 ( Gause and Smaragdova, 1938). 



^ 0.00200 



10 



o 



I- 



en 



c 



000100 



o 



4- 



o 



i_ 



en 



_c 



M- 

 O 



o 



3.3 

 3.2 



3.1 



3.0 

 2.9 

 2.8 



L 

 Ji = 9.700 



-L 



0.00330 



0.00340 



Reciprocal of absolute temperature 



Fig. 14. Effect of temperature on the killing rate of the fish Lebistes 

 retiCKlatiis by the optical isomers of tartaric acid. The lower graph 

 represents the killing rate plotted logarithmically. (From Gause and 

 Smaragdova, 1938.) 



