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Jeffrey M Gordon1, Daniel Feuermann, Mahmoud Huleihil
1Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer 84990, Israel. jeff@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
Nature
|August 2, 2003
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