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Life originated in water, is thriving in water, water being its sol- 

 vent and medium. It is the matrix of life. 



So before discarding electronic excitation as the means of bio- 

 logical energy transmissions, we have to have a look at water and 

 repeat some of the classical experiments in this medium, how- 

 ever unfit it may be for physical measurement. If we cannot 

 eliminate its shortcomings we can diminish them. We can, for in- 

 stance, try to produce possibly eutectic ice which includes dis- 

 solved substances, by cooling our solutions rapidly, using thin- 

 walled test tubes of a small diameter dipping them suddenly into 

 a cooling mixture, such as an etliylene glycol monomethyl ether 

 with dry ice suspended in it. 



We can start our experimentation by following the trail of the 

 physicist dissolving various fluorescent dyes and other fluorescent 

 substances first in glycerol. Viewing these solutions under the UV 

 lamp, armed with a filter which allows only UV to pass, we can 

 observe their fluorescence. Cooling these test tubes in our dry ice 

 freezing mixture will not make much difference. The intensity of 

 the fluorescence may somewhat increase, some "delayed fluores- 

 cence" may appear but the color, that is the wavelength of the 

 emitted light, as a rule, remains unchanged. The results will be 

 the same if, instead of the glycerol, we use a 10% water)^ solution 

 of glycerol or 2% methanol. 



This situation will change dramatically if we shift to pure water 

 as solvent. At room temperature we will see the usual fluorescence, 

 but on freezing we will find the light emission profoundly altered: 

 it will have disappeared or changed in color. This is illustrated 

 by Fig. 6, which is a colored photograph of test tubes, containing 

 fluorescent dyestuffs, illuminated by the UV lamp. All the tubes 

 contain in their lower half the dye solution in frozen state (cooled 

 in dry ice) and in their upper half the solution in unfrozen, 

 liquid condition. 



The first tube on the left contained a 10~* Af watery rhodamin 

 B solution. The upper half of the test tube shows the well known 



