Amino acid content of atmospheric precipitation

Alan B. Sidle

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v19i1.9757

Amino acid content of atmospheric precipitation

Tellus

Volume 19 (1967): Issue 1

By: Alan B. Sidle

Open Access

|Jan 1967

Abstract

The examination of rainwater by paper chromatography for amino acid content over a period of several months has established the existence of a persistent and widespread phenomenon in which varying amounts of glycine, valine, alanine, glutamic acid, aspartic acid and leucine-isoleucine are detected.

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