STUDIES ON PENETRATION OF DYES WITH GLASS ELECTRODE V. WHY DOES AZURE B PElq'ETRATE MORE READILY THAN METHYLENE BLUE OR CRYSTAL VIOLET? BY MARIAN IRWIN
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The results 1 from measurements made with the glass electrode and spectrophotometer show that brilliant cresyl blue penetrates as free base into the vacuoles of living cells of Nitella. The present paper describes similar experiments with azure B, methylene blue, and crystal violet. Since the methods for the condition of cells, extraction of the sap, penetration experiments, extraction of free base of dyes, making up of dye solutions, and measurements by means of the glass electrode have been published 1 in detail, they are omitted here. The dyes were obtained as salts. The azure B (in pure form) was made by W. C. Holmes of the Color Laboratory, Washington, D. C., methylene blue (medicinal) by Merck and Co., crystal violet by Griibler (obtained before 1914). These dyes affected the electrode slightly more than cresyl blue (causing the pH value of the sap containing the dye to increase between 0.1 and 0.2 pH value after the fifth measurement (when the electrode was not washed with acid), but these effects were entirely eliminated by washing the electrode with acid as already described. 1 Just as with cresyl blue, the readings did not vary within 5 minutes after the electrode was brought in contact with any one of these dyes.
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