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Wipawee Dechapanya1, Alexandra Eusebi, Yosuke Kimura

  • 1Center for Energy and Environmental Resources, University of Texas, 10100 Burnet Road, Mail Code R7100, Austin, Texas 78758, USA.

Environmental Science & Technology
|September 5, 2003
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