Would you like to help me in understanding the experiment how ethylene was discovered?
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The presence of Ethylene was observed by Dimitry Neljubow, he observed that etiolated pea seedlings exhibited a peculiar growth due to leaking illuminating gas in his laboratory. The illuminating gas (coal gas) was widely used for lighting, and its leakage from gas lines was known to cause extensive damage to plants, such as the defoliation of trees around street lamps. So he found that Ethylene is the biologically active compound present in illuminating gas.
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The presence of Ethylene was observed by Dimitry Neljubow, he observed that etiolated pea seedlings exhibited a peculiar growth due to leaking illuminating gas in his laboratory. The illuminating gas (coal gas) was widely used for lighting, and its leakage from gas lines was known to cause extensive damage to plants, such as the defoliation of trees around street lamps. So he found that Ethylene is the biologically active compound present in illuminating gas.
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