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n. - Basic importance.

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  • Whatever other objections have been made to this second proposition, arise, as far as I remember, merely from a confusion of the idea of essentialness or primariness...
  • Methods of research for ascertaining essentialness of ash constituents of plants 53
  • We now come to consider the present state of our knowledge on the essentialness of the ash or mineral portion of the plant.
  • The essentialness of the ash constituents was only, however, placed beyond all doubt by Wiegmann and Polstorff's researches, carried out in 1840.
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