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• Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 22:42:24 -0500 (EST)

Sender: bear@ellington.pharm.Arizona.EDU (Soaring Bear)
Subject: Re: WSN: Difference in Dielectric property of water

>Dr. Mrigank asks:
>I want to get information/ideas on the the difference in the dielectric
>properties of water in diffrent place in in biological cell.
>Like Burried in protein, surroundong protien, hydration spine of DNA, and
>what are the reasons for this difference. 

	You're hardly the first to wonder.   I've been interested
in this problem in trying to model oligonucleotides with the 
correct dielectric in the computer runs. 
	The fundamental problem is that dielectric is a bulk
property and trying to think local about bulk doesn't work
very well.   Some theoreticians have tried different approaches
but it is an unsolved problem (perhaps unsolvable?).


	Good Luck,
		   Bear

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