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Lifang Ma1, Millard H Alexander, Paul J Dagdigian

  • 1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742-2021, USA.

The Journal of Chemical Physics
|April 26, 2011
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