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L Ding1, S Kumashiro

  • 1Shimadzu Research Laboratory (Europe) Ltd., Manchester M17 1GP, UK. liding@srlab.co.uk

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry : RCM
|November 26, 2005
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