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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A dissolving again or anew; a second dissolution.

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  • A leaf with aggregated masses, caused by its having been waved for 2 m. in water at the temperature of 125o Fahr., was left in cold water, and after 11 hrs. the protoplasm showed traces of incipient redissolution.

    Insectivorous Plants Charles Darwin 1845

  • In order to observe the process of redissolution, the following observations were made: a leaf was left for 24 hrs. in a little solution of one part of carbonate of ammonia to 218 of water, and the protoplasm was as usual aggregated into numberless purple spheres, which were incessantly changing their forms.

    Insectivorous Plants Charles Darwin 1845

  • The leaf was then washed and placed in distilled water, and after 3 hrs. 15 m. some few of the spheres began to show by their less clearly defined edges signs of redissolution.

    Insectivorous Plants Charles Darwin 1845

  • The process of redissolution travels upwards from the bases of the tentacles to the glands, and therefore in

    Insectivorous Plants Charles Darwin 1845

  • The process of redissolution commences at the bases of the tentacles, thence proceeding upwards to the glands; and, therefore, in

    Insectivorous Plants Charles Darwin 1845

  • After the protoplasm in a tentacle has been aggregated, its redissolution always begins in the lower part, and slowly travels up the pedicel to the gland, so that the protoplasm last aggregated is first redissolved.

    Insectivorous Plants Charles Darwin 1845

  • As soon, therefore, as the aggregating action altogether ceases, redissolution naturally commences in the less strongly aggregated matter in the lowest part of the tentacle, and is there first completed.

    Insectivorous Plants Charles Darwin 1845

  • After 9 hrs. many of them had become elongated, and the surrounding fluid in the cells was slightly more coloured, showing plainly that redissolution had commenced.

    Insectivorous Plants Charles Darwin 1845

  • The process of redissolution in all cases commences at the bases of the tentacles, and proceeds up them towards the glands.

    Insectivorous Plants Charles Darwin 1845

  • The redissolution in these cases may, I presume, be attributed to endosmose.]

    Insectivorous Plants Charles Darwin 1845

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