Word: bechhold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bechhold of Frankfort retold of the goldplating of organisms too minute to be seen under the most powerful of microscopes-such as the bacteriophage of d'Herelle (TIME, Aug. 30). A solution known to contain or suspected of containing such organisms is mixed with a solution of gold chloride. The chlorine atoms are dragged away from those of the gold, leaving the gold to adhere to the ultramicroscopic organisms, like a fitted armor. Such golden cases may be counted, studied, and the nature of their petty contents learned by inference...
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