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C B Pinheiro1, M A Pimenta, G Chapuis

  • 1Departamento de Fisica, Icex, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, CEP 30123-970, Brazil. basilio@fisica.ufmg.br

Acta Crystallographica. Section B, Structural Science
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