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The application of Shannon's measure of information for a complex chemical system

F Safinejad1, A Shafiee, M Asghari-Khiavi

  • 1Department of Chemistry, Tarbiat Modares University, P.O.Box 14115-175, Tehran, Iran. safinej@modares.ac.ir

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|June 28, 2006
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