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Zsófia Szalay1, János Rohonczy

  • 1Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, 112. Pf: 32, H-1518 Budapest, Hungary.

Journal of Magnetic Resonance (San Diego, Calif. : 1997)
|December 29, 2007
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