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TEMPERATURE AND LATENT PERIOD 



a^ 



o.o 



'^ 7.8 



r.6 



T.^ 



23' 



25' 



zy 



29' 



Tempera ture 



Fig. 4. Relation between the temperature and the velocity constants of 

 the inactivation reaction T ^> N. The points are those computed from the 

 experimental data. The curve is the theoretical expectation from the Arrhenius 

 equation when n = 48,500. 



