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Rapid Testing of Resistance of Timber to Biodegradation by Marine Wood-Boring Crustaceans
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Influence of leaching protocol regimes on losses of wood preservative biocides
J A Hingston1, A Bacon, J Moore
1Environmental Processes and Water Technology Research Group, T. H. Huxley School of the Environment, Earth Sciences and Engineering, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Royal School of Mines Building, London, SW7 2BP, United Kingdom.
Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
|December 4, 2001
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