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10 - Practicalities of Working with DGT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2016

By
Dianne F. Jolley ,
Sean Mason ,
Yue Gao  and
Hao Zhang
Edited by
William Davison
William Davison
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Lancaster University
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Diffusive Gradients in Thin-Films for Environmental Measurements , pp. 263 - 290
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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