Studies on egg shells. II.—A method for marking and counting pores
- 1 June 1953
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture
- Vol. 4 (6) , 266-272
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.2740040603
Abstract
A method has been developed for marking the pores in egg shells by immersing them in concentrated nitric acid for very short periods of time. This makes the pores easily visible under the microscope, and counting can then be done by a statistical method. Not only is the total number of pores determined, but also a frequency distribution is obtained which indicates that the pores are not distributed at random.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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