Mass spectrometry and its use in tandem with laser spectroscopy

E R Grant1, R G Cooks

  • 1Chemistry Department, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|October 5, 1990
PubMed

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