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Guang-Jun Guo1, Yi-Gang Zhang, Ya-Juan Zhao

  • 1Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China. guogj@mail.igcas.ac.cn

The Journal of Chemical Physics
|July 21, 2004
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