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"In 1946, Henri Spindler, (Director of the Laboratoire Maritime de Dinard) investigated the origin of
Iodine in seaweed, and found that the algae Laminaria manufactured
Iodine out of water which contained none of the element.(15)"
http://www.life-enthusiast.com/ormus/orm_bio_transmut.htm
"In France, Freundler, lecturer at the Sorbonne (Faculté des Sciences de Paris) established in 1925 that
Iodine is created by algae (laminaria) and not - as has always been believed and is still taught today - by the algae fixing the iodine which is in the sea. A French geologist, A. de Cailleux, has, in addition, written that there is not a trace of iodine in the pre-Cambrian rocks which have remained unimpaired in their place: that being so, where does the iodine which is found in the earth later, come from? (Added to that, where do the immense masses of calcium come from found in the secondary epoch, if not, as in the primary, essentially from the siliceous rocks?)"
http://5-dimension.org/members/kervran/BT-what_are.pdf
"In 1963, the atomic physics professor of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers made available to me photocopies of several dozens of pages in which Freundler, a Sorbonne professor, condensed, in a 1928 book, studies conducted for more than 10 years on the production of iodine by algae. He is the first, to my knowledge, who saw that there was a connection between the tin of the granite support and the iodine in these plants. He had sensed the type of reaction that I indicated but he had not been able to convince anyone of this. He had come too soon and his calculations had a weak point. The balance of charges and masses was defective because the neutron was unknown at that time, not having been discovered until 1932. But nobody else, even after 1932, dreamed of reconsidering the problem which was nevertheless cross-checked, as it were, by converging studies. I touched on the work of Freundler to a certain extent in my book of 1963 on natural transmutations, which, after two editions, was not printed again."
http://www.rexresearch.com/kervran/kervran.htm
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