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The results of applying chloroform and KCl to Nitella indicate that a negative variation may be started whenever it is possible to set up along the protoplasm a gradient of potential difference sufficiently steep to produce the necessary outward flow of current. Successive variations may thus be set up.
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Osterhout et al. (1930) studied this question.
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