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Combined Size and Density Fractionation of Soils for Investigations of Organo-Mineral Interactions
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Combined Size and Density Fractionation of Soils for Investigations of Organo-Mineral Interactions

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Lunar soil: size distribution and mineralogical constituents

M B Duke, C C Woo, M L Bird

    Science (New York, N.Y.)
    |January 30, 1970
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