Letters...
atitis." It may be of interest t o
your readers to point out that a
printing error occurred in the
text. The Schumm test is quoted
as having a sharp peak at 530
n m . According t o Henry (Clinical Chemistry, 1964, p. 790), the
peak is supposed to occur at 558
n m . In the abstracted article itself, which incidentally also has a
printing error, 558 nm is given as
being the wavelength for the
sharp peak, whereas 530 nm has
a smaller peak, if any at all . . .
In the abstract, the unit for wavelength is given as 'my.' This
probably may be a somewhat unusual unit of mass, but certainly
not one of wavelength. The unit
should have been m/t or, as preferred nowadays, n m . "
Dr. Bernhard Ludvigsen
Head, Chemistry Department
Greenville (S.C.) General Hospital
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