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                                  Abstract
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The employment of molecular crystals as bactericidal, viricidal and
algicidal devices, and specifically the molecular semiconductor
crystal tetrasilver tetroxide Ag(4) O(4) which has two trivalent and
two monovalent silver atoms per molecule, and which through this
structural configuration generates electronic activity on a molecular
scale capable of killing algae and bacteria via the same mechanism as
macroscale electron generators.

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