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Hamad M Al-Matar1, Sayed M Badawy

  • 1Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait. almatar@kuc01.kuniv.edu.kw

Spectrochimica Acta. Part A, Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
|March 6, 2007
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