Note 52 — Chapter IV · The Growth of Different Organisms in a State of Purity: Their Autonomy.[49]
Frank Faulkner translation
M. Jules Raulin has published a well-known and remarkable work on the discovery of the mineral medium best adapted by its composition to the life of certain ordinary fungoid growths; he has given a formula for the composition of such a medium. It is this that we call here “Raulin’s fluid” for abbreviation.
Water 1,500
Sugar Candy 70
Tartaric Acid 4
Nitrate of Ammonia 4
Phosphate of Ammonia 0·6
Carbonate of Potassium 0·6
Carbonate of Magnesia 0·4
Sulphate of Ammonia 0·25
Sulphate of Zinc 0·07
Sulphate of Iron 0·07
Silicate of Potassium 0·07
J. Raulin. Paris, Victor Masson, 1870. Thèse pour le doctorat.