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This paper is a general one and meant to be a source of research concepts, rather than a description of research carried out. It is speculative and based upon bits of evidence which have come, in large during the last ten to fifteen years.1 It suggests, in a sketchy kind of way, that much of the field of electrical potential in biology has been misunderstood, and that, for the most part, they are not “membrane potentials” but potentials which can be described as “fuel cell potentials.”2 This term will be duly explained.
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Bockris, J.O. (1982). An Electrodic Approach to Bioelectrochemistry. In: Mittal, K.L., Fendler, E.J. (eds) Solution Behavior of Surfactants. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3491-0_10
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